Deportation vs. Repatriation

Deportationnoun

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

Deportationnoun

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

Deportationnoun

the act of expelling a person from their native land;

Deportationnoun

the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

Deportation

Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The term expulsion is often used as a synonym for deportation, though expulsion is more often used in the context of international law, while deportation is more used in national (municipal) law.

Repatriationnoun

The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.

Repatriationnoun

Process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country

Repatriationnoun

Restoration to one's country.

Repatriationnoun

the act of returning to the country of origin

Repatriation

Repatriation is the process of returning an asset, an item of symbolic value, or a person—voluntarily or forcibly—to its owner or their place of origin or citizenship. The term may refer to non-human entities, such as converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country, as well as to the process of returning military personnel to their place of origin following a war.