returnees
Those coming back
Returnees are people who have come back to a place they left, especially refugees or evacuees returning to their homeland, or soldiers returning from deployment.
The term often appears in policy contexts: The program helps returnees reintegrate into civilian life.
It can also describe employees returning after leave or students coming back from study abroad.
Gathering after separation
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- welcomeHospitable greeting offered
celebration · roots · heritage · memories · hometown · gathering · relatives · ancestry
People seeking safety elsewhere
- deporteesThose legally removed
- displacedShifted from proper location
- evacueesPeople removed from danger
- statelessWithout national belonging
expellees · repatriated · conflict · exile · involuntary · resettlement · post-conflict · reconstruction
Alteration to improve fit
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
- resocializationAcquiring replacement norms and values
- employmentPaid occupation status
training · counseling · support · adaptation · rehabilitation · recovery · inclusion · transition
People living outside homeland
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
- repatriatesReturns to home country
- overseasIn foreign countries
- expatsCitizens living abroad, informally
diaspora · transnational · homebound · foreign-born · global · nomads · sojourners · resettlers
reunion
Gathering after separation
welcome · celebration · roots · heritage · memories · hometown · gathering · relatives · ancestry · childhood
refugees
People seeking safety elsewhere
- deporteesThose legally removed
- displacedShifted from proper location
- evacueesPeople removed from danger
stateless · expellees · repatriated · conflict · exile · involuntary · resettlement · post-conflict · reconstruction · trauma
adjustment
Alteration to improve fit
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
- resocializationAcquiring replacement norms and values
employment · training · counseling · support · adaptation · rehabilitation · recovery · inclusion · transition · readjustment
expatriates
People living outside homeland
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
- repatriatesReturns to home country
- overseasIn foreign countries
expats · diaspora · transnational · homebound · foreign-born · global · nomads · sojourners · resettlers · brain-gain
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- regularsregulars, habitues, frequenters, usuals, familiar faces
- Asian educationConfucian academies, civil service exams, private academies, Peking University, examination halls
- Exile BooksDaniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Book of Daniel, Babylonian exile
returneesemigrants
People leaving their country
émigrés · leavers · expatriates · defectors · exiles
returneesnewcomers
Those recently arrived
new arrivals · stayers · natives · immigrants
- returned the favor
- returned to formRegained prior excellence
- returned to dustReverted to base elements
- kick returnerPlayer fielding kickoffs
- punt returnerPlayer catching kicked balls
- returned packageUndelivered parcel sent back