- To wander away from home is to be exposed without protection… sometimes a fate worse than death…
- Euripides likens all women's position to exile; in their having to leave home to serve their husbands. So Medea was doubly in exile, both in the ordinary sense, as a non-Greek foreigner, and as a woman. In the same speech, Medea talks of her status as 'a foreigner [falling] in the city['s ways]' and, on being married, 'we come to new behaviour, new customs'.
- Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."
- Exile can also be a self-imposed departure from one's homeland. Self-exile is often depicted as a form of protest by the person that claims it, to avoid persecution or legal matters (such as tax or criminal allegations), an act of shame or repentance, or isolating oneself to be able to devote time to a particular thing.
- An exile, expatriate, expat
- A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country…
- Absentee - one that is absent or not in residence
- An exile, deportee
- A person who is expelled from home or country by authority
- A foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander - one who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- Exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation
- the act of expelling a person from their native land
- “Men in exile dream of hope”
- “the sentence was one of transportation for life"
- banishment, proscription
- rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
“Men in exile dream of hope”
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