self-deportation

[victor steinbok]

Here's a link to the 1965 text (1.1.1965) that incorporates the 1964
changes that clearly shows "self-deportation"


http://goo.gl/Fy7Q7


Here's another link to the Congressional records for 1963 where a witness
testifies concerning the possibility of his own self-deportation

http://goo.gl/XFw2C


Here's a 1913 government report that shows the expression as well:

http://goo.gl/t2FQX


And here's a report from American Missionary Association that uses it in
1897:

http://goo.gl/fnH69


And it was used in reference to migrant laborers in the Missouri State
Convention report in 1863:

http://goo.gl/SvM6b


And here's one concerning emigrants rather than immigrants (i.e.,
self-exile, rather than return home) from The Parthenon from December 1825

http://goo.gl/mR4Wj


GB also shows two hits from 1817, but they appear to have slightly
different meaning.

With this, I am going to quit the chase. But it's interesting that both NPR
and NYT jumped on a claim that someone had "coined" a term, when it's been
in use anywhere between 130 and 170 years prior.

VS-)

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