Country of origin
Equivalents
Země původu — Herkunftsland — Paese di origine — Kraj pochodzenia
Related terms
- (is type of) safe country of origin
- (antonym) 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/
Synonyms and variants
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/