repatriations
Sending people back
Repatriations are acts of sending or bringing someone or something back to their country of origin.
People may be repatriated after wars, refugees returned to homelands, or prisoners of war sent home.
The term also applies to returning money, assets, or cultural artifacts: The museum agreed to the repatriation of looted antiquities.
In finance, repatriations move profits or capital back to a company's home country.
Legal expulsion from country
- extraditionFugitive transfer between jurisdictions
- returnGo back again
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- asylumShelter from persecution
immigration · treaties · jurisdiction · statelessness · refugees · displaced · expulsion · nationality
Incarcerated individuals
- POWsCaptured military personnel
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- hostagesCaptives held for demands
- interneesPeople forcibly confined
veterans · remains · MIA · bodies · armistice · ceasefire · exchanges · captives
Human-made historical objects
- antiquitiesHistorical objects from ages past
- lootingTheft during disorder
- museumsInstitutions preserving cultural artifacts
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
provenance · colonial · restitution · indigenous · sacred · objects · collections · Benin
deportation
Legal expulsion from country
- extraditionFugitive transfer between jurisdictions
- returnGo back again
- citizenshipStatus as state member
asylum · immigration · treaties · jurisdiction · statelessness · refugees · displaced · expulsion · nationality · consular
prisoners
Incarcerated individuals
- POWsCaptured military personnel
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- hostagesCaptives held for demands
internees · veterans · remains · MIA · bodies · armistice · ceasefire · exchanges · captives · liberation
artifacts
Human-made historical objects
- antiquitiesHistorical objects from ages past
- lootingTheft during disorder
- museumsInstitutions preserving cultural artifacts
heritage · provenance · colonial · restitution · indigenous · sacred · objects · collections · Benin · Parthenon
skeletal
Of or like bones
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- tribesAncestral social groups
nations · sacred · objects · museums · collections · ceremonial · regalia · funerary · Native · Aboriginal
capital
Wealth used for investment
- fundsAvailable financial resources
- profitsFinancial surplus after costs
- earningsMoney gained from work
remittances · currency · investment · offshore · taxation · dividends · foreign · transfer · assets · corporate
repatriationsemigrations
Permanent departures from homelands
expatriations · deportations · exiles · emigration · banishments