Factors determining the concept of repatriation

Abstract

The study points out that the concept of repatriation compromises the process of returning to mother countries of prisoners of war, internee citizens, emigrants. Having taken the political factor into consideration, the desire of emigration of huge number of people is also tackled, and the existence of the phenomena of re-emigration in the whole process. More often than not repatriates are thought to be synonymous to re-emigrants. In a common sense upheld in Poland repatriation is linked to emigrants from East lands of the Republic of Poland merged with the USSR. In the cognitive analysis the repatriation links are called upon and their specifics in the historical processes are characterized.