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repatriation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repatriation \Re*pa`tri*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. LL. repatriatio return to one's country.] Restoration to one's country.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship. 2 Process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country
WordNet
n. the act of returning to the country of origin
Wikipedia
Repatriation is the process of returning a person - voluntarily or forcibly - to his or her place of origin or citizenship. This includes the process of returning military personnel to their place of origin following a war. It also applies to diplomatic envoys, international officials as well as expatriates and migrants in time of international crisis. For refugees, asylum seekers and illegal migrants, repatriation can mean either voluntary return or deportation.
The term may also refer to non-human entities, such as converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.
Repatriation is the return of art or cultural heritage, usually referring to ancient or looted art, to their country of origin or former owners (or their heirs). The disputed cultural property items are physical artifacts of a group or society that were taken from another group usually in an act of looting, whether in the context of imperialism, colonialism or war. The contested objects range widely from sculptures and paintings to monuments and human remains.
Repatriation is a 2004 South Korean documentary film that documents the lives of North Korean spies who were captured and imprisoned in the South for more than 30 years. They were finally set free in the 1990s when inter-Korean relations improved, and repatriated to the North.
It was presented with the Freedom of Expression Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, the first time a Korean film has ever been presented with an award at the prestigious U.S. festival. It also won Best Documentary Award at the 19th Fribourg International Film Festival in 2005.
Usage examples of "repatriation".
For many, however, repatriation would take years not months, and hundreds of thousands were destined to die without seeing their homeland again.
Entering into the formal channels of repatriation did not guarantee a swift and safe return.
Diseases ravaged many groups of returnees, and as a consequence repatriation became delayed by the need to conduct medical examinations, immunizations, and occasional quarantines.
For servicemen in all theaters, repatriation was often delayed by local Allied authorities who chose to use their prisoners for specific postwar purposes.
The British, in charge of the repatriation of approximately three-quarters of a million Japanese from south and southeast Asia, made no bones about their intention to hold on to a large number for projects in areas where the European powers, having ousted the Japanese aggressors, were intent on reasserting their own colonial authority.
The excruciatingly prolonged nature of the repatriation process, together with Soviet unwillingness to provide accurate information about the number and identity of their prisoners, greatly exacerbated this animosity.
By 1948, it had also become obvious that the Soviets were delaying repatriation in order to subject prisoners to intensive indoctrination, so that they might contribute to communist agitation on their return.
From a logistical standpoint, the repatriation process was an impressive accomplishment.
A contemporary description of the Kamoi Repatriation Center in Uraga captures this.
Well over half dealt with the repatriation of family and acquaintances from overseas.
His response to the horrors he witnessed in the final, hopeless stages of the war in Burma was to refuse repatriation and become a priest, wandering the jungles to search out and bury the remains of soldiers who had starved to death or been annihilated in combat.
Saddam Husayn, who had agreed on October 5, 1988, to the ICRC plan for prisoner repatriation, in March 1989 proposed in a letter to UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar that the UN guarantee the return of the freed POWs to civilian life.
Corellian passport holders now have forty-eight hours to report to their local CSF precinct and opt for repatriation or face internment.
Michelangelo would start complaining about the clothes Vincent had chosen for him soon enough, and then, if they hurried, they could make it to the docks and check out the cargo before their command appearance at breakfast and the repatriation ceremony.
A second list was of Americans for whom the embassy would request repatriation or safe internment.