How to say "deportation" in Japanese

• 送還そうかんCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbDeportation in the immigration sense: the official act of sending someone, typically a foreign national, back to their home country. This is the word for repatriation carried out by the authorities.
• 流刑りゅうけいCommon
  noun, suru verbDeportation as punishment: exiling or banishing a person, not the immigration procedure of sending someone home. For that administrative sense this is seldom the word you want.
• 追放ついほうJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbA broad word for driving someone out: expulsion or banishment from a country, group, or position. It can cover deportation loosely, but for the formal immigration procedure use 送還.
  支配者しはいしゃは打倒だとうされ国外こくがいに追放ついほうされた。↗

  The ruler was overthrown and banished from the country.

For the official removal of a foreign national to their home country use 送還; 流刑 is deportation as punitive exile, and 追放 is broader expulsion or banishment from a country, group, or position.

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• 送還そうかんsending home
• 流刑りゅうけいexile
• 追放ついほうexile
• 国外追放こくがいついほうdeportation
• 退去強制たいきょきょうせいdeportation
• 国外退去こくがいたいきょdeportation
• 強制移送きょうせいいそうdeportation (e.g. of a refugee)
• 強制送還きょうせいそうかんforced repatriation
• 流謫りゅうたくexile