expatriation
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He’d sought answers to his country’s racial problems through scholarship, sociology, pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism, sci-fi, Socialism, Communism and finally expatriation, to Ghana, a new nation with a new president, Du Bois ally Kwame Nkrumah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The Court was clear: Except in very rare cases, denaturalization and expatriation were taken off the table.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
Brownell, Frankfurter delivered the opinion of the court supporting expatriation by beginning with “Petitioner, a national of the United States by birth …” Frankfurter went on to recount Perez’s history.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
These expatriation figures don’t reflect migration but merely show the number of Americans living abroad who have effectively decided to give up any plan to move back to the U.S.A.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025
Turkey, for instance, only tacitly assents to the expatriation of Ottoman subjects, so long as they remain outside Turkish jurisdiction.
From Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question by Lucien Wolf
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