Deportation facts for kids

Deportation, means the removal of someone from a country. People may be deported from a country for many reasons. For example, one may be deported from a country if he has got into the country illegally, or without a visa (permission).

Deportation can also happen inside a country. A person or a group of people may be forced to move to a different part of the country, as a punishment.

Related pages

• Ethnic cleansing

Images for kids

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  Prisoners and gendarmes on the road to Siberia, 1845

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  certificate of identity of deported individual that pertains other Chinese deportation records of the US District court, Los Angeles County, California.

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  Ethnic Germans being deported from the Sudetenland during the aftermath of World War II

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  Radicals awaiting deportation, Ellis Island, New York Harbor, 1920

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  Striking miners and others being deported at gunpoint from Lowell, Arizona, on July 12, 1917, during the Bisbee Deportation.

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  People being deported during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

See also

In Spanish: Deportación para niños