Editing Repatriation (section)

=== Repatriation of foreign nationals abroad during wars ===
Countries have repatriated their nationals who are abroad during the outbreak of a war. For example when World War II begun in 1939, the United States launched a repatriation effort to repatriate Americans who were either living or visiting Europe with 75,000 Americans being repatriated by early November 1939.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wilk |first=Gavin |date=2021 |title=Hasty Departures: The Evacuation of American Citizens from Europe at the Outbreak of World War II |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9jk269dd#main |journal=[[Journal of Transnational American Studies]] |volume=12 |issue=1 |doi=10.5070/T812139136 |via=eScholarship |doi-access=free}}</ref> At the beginning of the [[Korean War]], the United States repatriated its civilians from Korea sending them to Japan with a total of 1,655 people being repatriated.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haulman |first=Daniel L. |date=Summer 2001 |title=Salvation from the Sky: Airlift in the Korean War, 1950 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26274211 |journal=Air Power History |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=16–25 |jstor=26274211 |quote=The demand for airlift erupted on the first day of the invasion. John J. Muccio, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, requested a sea and air evacuation of American civilians from Korea. Most of the evac-uees were in the Seoul area, and had to leave through the port of Inchon or nearby Kimpo and Suwon airfields. The Far East Air Forces (FEAF) and its 374th Troop Carrier Group mustered 7 four- engine C–54s, and 14 two-engine C–47s and C–46s at Itazuke and Ashiya Air Bases in Japan for the airlift. Between June 27 and 29, the Air Force evacuated about 850 civilians from Korea to Japan. Fifth Air Force F–80 jets and F–82 Twin Mustang fighters covered the evacuation and shot down seven enemy aircraft. At the same time 905 evacuees departed by sea. }}</ref>

====Post–World War II====
In the 20th century, following all European wars, several repatriation commissions were created to supervise the return of war refugees, [[displaced person]]s, and [[prisoners of war]] to their country of origin. Repatriation [[hospital]]s were established in some countries to care for the ongoing medical and health requirements of returned military personnel. In the [[Soviet Union]], the refugees seen as traitors for surrendering were often killed or sent to [[Siberia]]n concentration camps.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fields|first1=Paul|title=Ostarbeiters|url=http://magazines.russ.ru/zvezda/2005/6/po8.html|website=Coffee Lounge|access-date=January 11, 2015}}</ref>

Issues surrounding repatriation have been some of the most heatedly debated political topics of the 20th and 21st centuries. Many [[Operation Keelhaul|forced back to the Soviet Union by Allied forces]] in [[World War II]] still hold this forced migration against the [[United States of America]] and the [[United Kingdom]].

The term ''repatriation'' was often used by Communist governments to describe the large-scale state-sponsored [[ethnic cleansing]] actions and [[Population transfer|expulsion]] of national groups. [[Poland|Poles]] born in territories that were annexed by the Soviet Union,  although deported to the State of Poland, were settled in the annexed former [[Germany|German]] territories (referred to in Polish as the [[Regained Territories]]). In the process they were told that they had returned to their Motherland.

After the fall of the [[Iron Curtain]] and end of [[Bosnian War]] increased repatriation, [[deportation]] and readmission agreements were observed in Europe.<ref name="Zetter"/>