"An exile is a person compelled to leave or remain outside his country of origin on account of well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, or political opinion; a person who considers his exile temporary (even though it may last a lifetime), hoping to return to his fatherland when circumstances permit—but unwilling or unable to do so as long as the factors that made him an exile persist."
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Paul Tabori, The Anatomy of Exile: A Semantic and Historical Study (London: George G. Harrap, 1972), p. 27.
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