Country of origin

Equivalents

Země původu — Herkunftsland — Paese di origine — Kraj pochodzenia

Related terms

• safe country of origin (is type of)
• (is the opposite of) country of asylum/arrival, host country
• refugee / migrant (comes from)

Definition

(...) country of origin means the country or countries of nationality or, for stateless persons, of former habitual residence.

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/

Encyclopaedic information

Generally, those who are found not to qualify for asylum as refugees are deported to their country of origin.

Source: https://origins.osu.edu/

Collocations

• to leave one's country of origin
• to be displaced from one's country of origin
• to return to one's country of origin
• to be expelled, sent back, deported to one's country of origin
• to seek refuge outside one's country of origin

Examples

People without Ukrainian citizenship or the right to permanent residence – a category that could cover many international students – will not gain the right to stay in the EU, but will be helped to return to their country of origin.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/

The researchers found that only 5 per cent of forced migrants felt they could plausibly return home within a year, owing to concerns about persecution, compulsory military conscription, further economic hardship and a lack of public-sector services in their country of origin.

Source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Amnesty International found that the deliberately harsh, humiliating conditions at the Australian-run detention facility were designed to pressure asylum seekers to return to their country of origin, regardless of whether or not they were refugees.

Source: https://www.amnestyusa.org/