The remains of Muscogee and Euchee ancestors have returned to their traditional homelands after being overseas for more than 150 years.

Australia has demonstrated it can repatriate its citizens safely when it feels compelled to. In 2022, for example, it helped repatriate four women – the wives and widows of IS militants – and their 13 children from al-Roj camp in Syria.

By the end of the 18th Century, the act prohibiting the importation of the enslaved made it illegal to transport enslaved Africans to the United States.

(The Conversation) — Repatriation is now a legal responsibility, but also a matter of human rights, an anthropologist writes. (The Conversation) — As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and ...

In the first months of 2023, California State University, Fullerton seemed poised to make progress on the repatriation of Native American cultural artifacts and human remains. University administrators, staff, and others identified a location to conduct ...

Denison University will host a roundtable discussion on the complex debate surrounding the repatriation of cultural artifacts.

This article was published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive ProPublica’s biggest stories as soon as they’re published. More than a dozen senators are pressing for the museums ...

In early May, 20 Rohingya Muslims and government officials from Bangladesh recently visited Myanmar’s Rakhine State in an effort to urge their voluntary homecoming, which can be regarded as a major development in terms of the long-stalled Rohingya ...

We’ve been skeptical about repatriation as a notable movement but anecdotal evidence suggests that it is happening in certain pockets. Even though we still don’t see cloud repatriation broadly showing in the numbers, certain examples have caught our ...