forced displacement
involuntary or coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region
deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
ethnic cleansing of Koreans in the Soviet Union
Mexican Repatriation
mass repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression
evacuation in the Soviet Union
mass migration
Deportation of Hungarians and Germans of Carpathian Ruthenia
Soviet mass displacement (1944-45)
Operation Vistula
1947 population resettlement in Poland
Highland Clearances
the mass eviction of tenants from the Scottish Highlands in the 18th and 19th centuries
Expulsion of Moroccans from Algeria
forced exodus of Moroccans
expulsion of Asians from Uganda
expulsion of Asian minority's in Uganda ordered by the President of Uganda, Idi Amin, in August of 1972,
Expulsion of Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri
1833 forced removal of Mormons
Armenian Genocide
systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I implemented by the Ottoman authorities through mass murder
population transfer in the Soviet Union
transfer and deportation of people in the Soviet Union
deportation of the Crimean Tatars
ethnic cleansing carried out by the Soviet Union during World War II
Carib Expulsion
French-led ethnic cleansing of the Carib population in 1660 from present-day Martinique, following the French conquest of the island in 1635
Deportation of the Soviet Greeks
ethnic cleansing of Greeks in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin
Soviet deportation of Kurds
Soviet forced displacement (1937-44)
ethnic cleansing
various ways of displacing or exterminating human beings from another ethnic group from a territory
Istrian-Dalmatian exodus
post-World War II expulsion and departure of ethnic Italians from the ethnically mixed Yugoslav territories of Istria, Zadar, and Rijeka
Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
ethnic cleansing of Romanians under Soviet Union’s illegal occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina of Romania
Choctaw Trail of Tears
attempted 1830s removal of Choctaw from present-day Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana
Expulsion of Cham Albanians
20th century forced migration of Cham Albanians from Greece
Prussian deportations
mass expulsions from Prussia (1885–1890)
Operation West
Soviet forced displacement of Western Ukrainians
expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany
World War II expulsions
exile
event by which a person is forced away from home
Operation North
mass deportation of Jehovah's Witnesses to Siberia
Indian removal
early 19th-century United States domestic policy involving forced resettlement of indigenous peoples
Expulsion of the Loyalists
aftermath of the American Revolution
Ottoman Exile
Ottoman practice of forced migration
Deportation of the Crimean People
Soviet forced displacement (1941-44)
expulsion of Poles by Germany
prolonged campaign of ethnic cleansing against ethnic Poles from the early 19th century until 1945
Soviet deportations from Lithuania
mass deportations in 1941 and 1945-52
Soviet deportations from Latvia
deportations in 1941 and 1945-1951
Potawatomi Trail of Death
forced removal by militia in 1838 of members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana
deportation
expulsion of someone from a place or country not to be balanced back
Operation Vermin
forced resettlement in the GDR, 1952/61
population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine
1940s population resettlements
penal transportation
relocation of convicted criminals to a distant place
Soviet deportations from Estonia
overview of Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1941 and 1945–1951
Home Children
child migration scheme under which more than 100,000 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa
Big Excursion
1989 ethnic cleansing of Muslims from Bulgaria
Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
genocide of Hindus from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s
forced adoption
practice of forcefully taking children from their parents and placing them for adoption
Resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Policy of resettlement of population by Neo-Assyrian Empire
First Africans in Virginia
1619 arrival of the first slaves in the British North American colonies that would be the United States
Expulsion of the Moriscos
17th century expulsion of Moriscos from Spain
Present absentee
Palestinian internal refugees
Down to the Countryside Movement
exile of Chinese urban youth to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution