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Repatriation is the return of a thing or person to its or their country of origin, respectively. The term may refer to non-human entities, such as converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country, as well as the return of military personnel to their place of origin following a war .
Stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh (Urdu: محصور پاکستانی, mahsūr pākistānī, Bengali: উদ্বাস্তু পাকিস্তানি, romanized: udbāstu pākistāni) are Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants with homelands in present-day India (then part of British India) who settled in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) following the partition of India in 1947.
[53] [54] Originally, the government of Myanmar agreed to repatriate only 374 Rohingya refugees out of a list of over 8,000 submitted by their Bangladeshi counterparts on 14 March 2018, citing incomplete paperwork as the reason for the slow process, [55] [56] but on 18 May 2018, they announced they would repatriate a total of 1,100 "verified ...
A banner advocating "remigration" during an anti-immigration protest in Calais, France, in 2015. Remigration, [1] also called repatriation, [2] [3] is a far-right and Identitarian political concept referring to the forced or promoted return of non-ethnically European immigrants, often including their descendants who were born in Europe, back to their place of racial origin, typically with no ...
Under the terms of the agreement, UNHCR supervised the repatriation of Bangladeshi and Pakistani citizens. According to the UN, 121,695 Bengalis were moved from Pakistan to Bangladesh. They included high-level Bengali civil servants and military officers. 108,744 non-Bengali civilians and civil servants were moved from Bangladesh to Pakistan. [4]
This legal change was intended to prevent their forced repatriation to Bangladesh by Myanmar, which has historically refused to recognize the Rohingya as citizens or one of its ethnic groups. Despite repeated international efforts to resolve the issue, most Rohingya refugees remain unable to return to Myanmar due to ongoing persecution and fear ...
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The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner was established in 1992 when the first wave of Rohingya refugees, about 250 thousand, arrived from Myanmar. The office is located in Cox's Bazar District. [4] Mahbub Alam Talukder was appointed commissioner on 2 September 2019 replacing Abul Kalam. [5]