Native and Refugee

Opposite meaning words

Native noun - A usually longtime resident of a locality.

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Refugee is an antonym for native.

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

Refugee noun - A person forced to emigrate for political reasons.

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Native is an antonym for refugee in often oppression topic.

Nearby Word: refuge

alien	alien native	alien refugee
genuine	genuine native	genuine refugee
single	single native	single refugee
poor	poor native	poor refugee
Other adjectives: real, young, former, last, generic.

In the lead-up to the release of District 9, alien refugee Christopher Johnson ran an anti-MNU propaganda blog in his native Starfish Language (but with English translations available at literally the click of a button), unsurprisingly called MNU Spreads Lies.

Source: Character Blog
Also happens in the end of the episode "Fresh Bones" to an evil Marine sergeant in charge of a Haitian refugee camp, who turns out to be using the Haitian's native Voodoo to incapacitate/kill whistleblowers who were going to expose his ordered abuse of the refugees.

Source: Buried Alive

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