repatriation

Examples of repatriation in the following topics:

• Conflicts

  • During World War II, the Nazis looted a lot of European art, much of which was eventually repatriated, or returned to, its rightful owners.

• Rituals

  • The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is a United States federal law enacted on November 16, 1990, requiring institutions that receive federal funding, such as museums, to return Native American cultural items to lineal descendants and affiliated tribes and communities.

• Sales Training

  • The training of a salesperson who will be working in a country other than his or her own can be broken into three segments—pre-departure, on-site, and repatriation.
  • When the employee abroad returns, a repatriation program designed to reduce culture shock and to integrate the experience abroad is useful.

• Slavery and Liberty

  • The ACS was made up mostly of Quakers and slaveholders, who disagreed on the issue of slavery but found common ground in support of "repatriation. " Most black Americans did not want to emigrate, however, and preferred full rights in the United States.
  • While slaveholders opposed freedom for blacks, they saw "repatriation" as a way of avoiding rebellions.

• Hoover's Efforts at Recovery

  • In 1929, Hoover authorized a program of Mexican repatriation with the stated intention of combating rampant American unemployment, reducing the burden on municipal aid services, and removing people who were considered usurpers of American jobs.
  • The repatriation program, which continued through 1936, was a forced migration of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans over the southern border, with estimates ranging from 500,000 to 2 million deported.

• Employee training

  • The training of an employee who will be working in a country other than his or her own can be broken into three segments—pre-departure, on-site, and repatriation.
  • When the employee abroad returns to his or her home country it is equally important that the company offer some form of repatriation program.

• Yalta and the Postwar World

  • Also, the "Big Three" agreed that all original governments would be restored to the invaded countries (with the exception of France, Romania, and Bulgaria; the Polish government-in-exile was also excluded by Stalin) and that all civilians would be repatriated.

• The Defeat of Japan

  • It was not until 1947 that all prisoners held by America and Britain were repatriated.

• Abolitionists and the American Ideal

  • The ACS was mostly composed of Quakers and slaveholders who disagreed on the issue of slavery but found common ground in supporting repatriation.

• The Korean War

  • Among those captured, about 14,000 defected to Taiwan, while the other 7,110 were repatriated to China.