repatriate
a voluntary repatriation program
They face forced repatriation to their homeland.
The authorities are strictly enforcing the repatriation agreement.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Evicting and forcing to leave
boot someone off (something)
boot someone out (of something)
bump
chuck
chuck someone out
clear someone off something
clearance
dislocated
expulsion
extraditable
extradite
extradition
fling something/someone out
ship
ship someone off
show someone the dooridiom
slam dunk
sling someone out
smoke
throw

Examples of repatriation

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The recent call for the repatriation of the bronzes also brings with it questions of legitimate ownership.
Most disturbing is the sense that repatriation marks the end of the 'experience' and the best solution.
The ' refugee experience' is portrayed as a cycle of flight, exile and repatriation, again a formulation that has been widely critiqued.
States and intergovernmental agencies held power over the displaced - coercing them into moving, incarcerating them and determining their resettlement or repatriation.
Yet despite government's overwhelming rural bias and its heavy-handed repatriation operations, urban growth continued unabated after independence.
Since firms use a complex tax minimization strategy of transfer pricing and profit repatriation, the effect is unknown and beyond the scope of this proposal.
Repatriation, therefore, was not the same as extradition.
A period of intense repatriation, travel, and contact with the outside world followed.
That is, funds for repatriations are less reliable.
I argue that refugee repatriation is a complex process because its success depends on at least four different actors, each with its own interests.
On the other hand, in a four-actor scenario, all four actors reaching agreement on repatriation is only one of sixteen outcomes.
Issues discussed here include sample representation, standardization of data collection and repatriation.
On the other hand, repatriation, whether spontaneous or official, is generally a more organised process that rarely attracts media attention.
In losing their prisoner of war status, they also lost the right to resist repatriation.
At the time of this writing, the official repatriation programme has been discontinued entirely.
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