repatriating
Returning to homeland
Repatriating is returning someone or something to their country of origin.
Governments repatriate refugees, prisoners of war, or remains of the deceased.
Museums face pressure to repatriate artifacts taken during colonial periods.
Companies repatriate profits by bringing foreign earnings back to their home country: The tax holiday encouraged corporations to repatriate billions held overseas.
People seeking safety elsewhere
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- asylumShelter from persecution
- migrationMovement to new territory
exodus · diaspora · expulsion · relocation · resettlement · uprooted · displaced · statelessness
Reestablishing in new place
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- acclimatizationAdjusting to new conditions
support · counseling · employment · housing · community · orientation · socialization · language
Human-made historical objects
- antiquitiesHistorical objects from ages past
- remainsContinues in place
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- treasuresPrized possessions or valuables
looted · stolen · provenance · museum · restitution · reclamation · colonial · indigenous
refugees
People seeking safety elsewhere
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- asylumShelter from persecution
migration · exodus · diaspora · expulsion · relocation · resettlement · uprooted · displaced · statelessness · fleeing
resettlement
Reestablishing in new place
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
acclimatization · support · counseling · employment · housing · community · orientation · socialization · language · culture
artifacts
Human-made historical objects
- antiquitiesHistorical objects from ages past
- remainsContinues in place
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
treasures · looted · stolen · provenance · museum · restitution · reclamation · colonial · indigenous · sacred objects
return
Go back again
welcome · arrival · embrace · nostalgia · roots · birthplace · hometown · ancestry · heritage · ancestral
funds
Available financial resources
assets · money · offshore · tax · corporate · investment · currency · remittances · transfers · wealth
repatriatingexiling
Expelling from homeland
deporting · expatriating · banishing · expelling · extraditing
repatriatingappropriating
Taking for one's use
retaining · keeping · withholding · looting · plundering