deportation
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Deportation is the legal process by which a government removes a person from its territory, typically sending them back to their country of origin or another country. It matters because it affects individuals' rights to remain in a country and can have significant consequences for families and communities.
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- Definition
- History
- Antiquity
- Deportation in the Achaemenid Empire
- Deportation in the Parthian Empire
- Deportation in the Sasanian empire
- Middle Ages
- Modern deportation
- United States
- Nazi Germany
- Russia and the Soviet Union
- Azerbaijan
- Independent State of Croatia
- Contemporary
- Noteworthy deportees
- Opposition
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
upright=0.8|thumb|Certificate of identity of an individual seeking re-entry to the United States during the [[Chinese Exclusion Act era, among the Chinese deportation records of the US District court, Los Angeles County, California]]
Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people by a state from its sovereign territory. The actual definition changes depending on the place and context, and it also changes over time. A person who has been deported or is under sentence of deportation is called a deportee.