repatriation
the act or process of returning a person or thing to the country of origin: If conditions allow, refugees can be offered the option of voluntary repatriation rather than resettlement in countries offering asylum.Museums are increasingly facing pressure from formerly colonized countries seeking repatriation of their priceless antiquities.
Origin of repatriation
1Other words from repatriation
- non·re·pat·ri·a·tion, noun
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How to use repatriation in a sentence
For years, covert repatriation squads from China have tracked their targets in all manner of quintessentially American settings, from quiet housing tracts to suburban chain restaurants to immigrant business districts.
Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg | July 22, 2021 | ProPublicaShe would lead the repatriation team, but because she didn’t speak English, Johnny would stick close and be her intermediary with Mike, as the team called the American private detective.
Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg | July 22, 2021 | ProPublicaThe Met has been embroiled in repatriation disputes, and those will continue to pile up.
New documentary about the Metropolitan Museum of Art asks good questions, but not enough tough ones | Philip Kennicott | May 27, 2021 | Washington PostIn India, Hasina Kharbhih has used repatriation and compensation to rescue 72,000 women and children from trafficking across the region.
That strategic shift may include embracing the LANDBACK movement, an effort to demand full repatriation of wealth and lands stolen from Native peoples across America.
According to Vieira, most of the bones unearthed had to be reburied in accordance with the Native American repatriation Act.
A repatriation ceremony would help bury the ignominious squabbles of the past.
Incontrovertible Evidence Proves the First Americans Came From Asia | Doug Peacock | March 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTZionism was not about colonization; it was about repatriation.
Despite Hebron's Importance, Israel Will Have to Give It Up | Samuel Lebens | October 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTInternational agencies assume the solution for nearly all refugees is repatriation once the fighting stops.
Between Two Catastrophes: Look at Syria, and Question Everyone's Stories about 1948 | Gershom Gorenberg | September 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIs Germany's repatriation of its gold reserves from storage in New York and Paris a signal of declining confidence in the Euro?
In June 1907 the repatriation of the Chinese coolies began; it was completed in February 1910.
The Government declined to make any arrangement for their repatriation.
Chitta Ranjan | Sukumar Ranjan DasThey were also making arrangements for the repatriation of the Coolies.
Chitta Ranjan | Sukumar Ranjan DasMy misgivings seem to be proving true, and repatriation is more likely to prove compulsory than voluntary.
Freedom's Battle | Mahatma GandhiThey are apparently asked to contribute out of their wages to a repatriation fund.
Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 | Evelyn Baring
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