Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a territory. The actual definition changes depending on the place and context, and it also changes over time. Forced displacement or forced migration of an individual or a group may be caused by deportation, for example ethnic cleansing, and other reasons. A person who has been deported or is under sentence of deportation is called a deportee.
Prisoners and gendarmes on the road to Siberia, 1845
Certificate of identity of deported individual that pertains other Chinese deportation records of the US District court, Los Angeles County, California.
People being deported during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Anarchists protesting against deportations
Forced displacement is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations".
Syrian and Iraqi migrants arriving in Lesbos, Greece in 2015 seeking refuge.
Damage to residence in Nias, Indonesia from the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Jews forcibly displaced by the Nazi regime during Germany's WWII occupation of Poland, loaded onto trains for transport to concentration camps.
Children of undocumented immigrants from Latin America to the United States detained in the Ursula Detention Center, McAllen, Texas, June 2017
