Draft:Expulsion act

An expulsion act, exclusion act, or removal act is a government order forcibly moving or exiling a group of people from an area. There have been many instances of expulsions based on religion as well as ethnicity. Immigrants and refugees have also been targeted in deportations. Non-government militias and rioters have also caused forced displacements of people out of areas.


 * The Edict of Expulsion was a royal decree issued by King Edward I of England on 18 July 1290 expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England
 * The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal by the British from 1755 through 1764 of Acadian people from the Eastern Canada's Maritime Provinces.
 * Jews faced expulsion from Spain or had to convert in the late 14th and early 15th centuries
 * The Indian Removal Act was passed in the United States in 1830 during Andrew Jackson's presidency and was part of efforts to force indigenous peoples west away from the eastern United States and was followed by the Trail of Tears and Cherokee Removal
 * From 1844 the Oregon black exclusion laws barred African Americans from living in Oregon
 * Expulsion of the Albanians, 1877–1878 was the forced removal of Muslim Albanians from Serbia
 * The Arkansas Free Negro Expulsion Act (Act No. 151, "An Act to Remove the Free Negroes and Mulattoes from this State", February 12, 1859.) banned free people of African American heritage which were classified as "Negros" or "mulattos" from the state of Arkansas.
 * Australia had various laws known as the White Australia policy
 * Germans were forcibly displaced from areas of Eastern Europe after World War II including the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II.
 * On December 20, 1827 Mexico passed its first "expulsion law", providing for citizens of Spain to be expelled within the next six months, and to remain barred from re-entry until the Kingdom of Spain recognized Mexico's 1810 declaration of independence. Ultimately, because of exemptions within the expulsion act, 1,779 of the 6,610 Spaniards were required to leave.
 * Chinese Exclusion Act
 * Immigration Act of 1924