Deportee
Deportee noun - A person forced to emigrate for political reasons.
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Synonyms for Deportee
Migrant and deportee are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Migrant" instead a noun "Deportee".
Nearby Words: deportation, deported
Migrant
Migrant noun - One that leaves one place to settle in another.
Usage example: the city will have to expand and upgrade its social services in order to handle the latest influx of migrants
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Guthrie wrote the lyrics for "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" after reading an article about Mexican migrant workers dying in a plane crash but noting that the pilots were named in the article but the workers weren't.
Source: The Dead Have Names
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Migrant and Deportee. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/deportee/migrant
Deportee & Migrant. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/deportee/migrant>.
Migrant or Deportee. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/deportee/migrant.
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