repatriates
Returns to homeland
Repatriates can be the verb or the noun.
To repatriate is to send or bring someone back to their country of origin—prisoners of war are repatriated after conflicts end, and governments repatriate refugees when conditions allow return.
Money and assets can also be repatriated: The company repatriated its overseas profits.
As a noun, repatriates are people who have been sent or have returned home: The repatriates struggled to readjust to civilian life.
Go back again
- reunionGathering after separation
- welcomeHospitable greeting offered
- embraceHold closely in arms
- homelandOne's native land
motherland · family · roots · nostalgia · reintegration · reacclimation · resettlement · restoration
Political objectors
- activistsPeople working for causes
- asylum seekersPeople requesting safe haven
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
amnesty · defectors · humanitarian · intervention · sanctuary · advocacy · protection · prisoners of war
Forced removal from place
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
asylum · statelessness · persecution · ostracism · exodus · fugitive · expellee · outcast
Status as state member
- nationalityLegal belonging to country
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- naturalizationLegal path to belonging
- visaTravel authorization stamp
consulate · embassy · documentation · allegiance · rights · status · dual nationality · residency
Combining into a whole
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- transitionChange from one state
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
adjustment · relocation · support services · housing · employment · language barriers · culture shock · social services
return
Go back again
homeland · motherland · family · roots · nostalgia · reintegration · reacclimation · resettlement · restoration · recovery
dissidents
Political objectors
- activistsPeople working for causes
- asylum seekersPeople requesting safe haven
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
opposition · amnesty · defectors · humanitarian · intervention · sanctuary · advocacy · protection · prisoners of war · hostages
banishment
Forced removal from place
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- displacementRemoval from usual location
refugee · asylum · statelessness · persecution · ostracism · exodus · fugitive · expellee · outcast · alienation
citizenship
Status as state member
- nationalityLegal belonging to country
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- naturalizationLegal path to belonging
visa · consulate · embassy · documentation · allegiance · rights · status · dual nationality · residency · immigration
integration
Combining into a whole
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- transitionChange from one state
rehabilitation · adjustment · relocation · support services · housing · employment · language barriers · culture shock · social services · community
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- migrantsmigrants, arctic tern, monarch butterfly, caribou, humpback whale
- returnersalumni, prodigals, homecomers, repeat customers, rehires
- tribal peopletribespeople, tribesman, clan member, clan leaders, clan elders
- war victimswar victims, civilian casualties, combat wounded, wounded soldiers, war widows
repatriatesdenaturalizes
Revokes someone's citizenship
exiles · bars · excludes · disowns · ostracizes
repatriation, repatriate, repatriated, repatriating, repatriations