Editing Homeland (section)

==Uses by country==
* The [[Soviet Union]] created homelands for some minorities in the 1920s, including the [[Volga German ASSR]] and the [[Jewish Autonomous Oblast]]. In the case of the Volga German ASSR, these homelands were later abolished, and their inhabitants deported to either [[Siberia]] or the [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic|Kazakh SSR]].
* In the [[United States]], the [[Department of Homeland Security]] was created soon after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|11 September 2001, terrorist attacks]], as a means to centralize response to various [[imminent threat|threats]]. In a June 2002 column, [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] consultant and speechwriter [[Peggy Noonan]] expressed the hope that the [[George W. Bush administration|Bush administration]] would change the name of the department, writing that, "The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably. ''Homeland'' isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Noonan |first=Peggy |title=OpinionJournal – Peggy Noonan |access-date=8 September 2007 |date=14 June 2002<!-- 12:01 a.m. EDT --> |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110001838 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930202405/http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110001838 |archive-date=30 September 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* In the [[History of South Africa in the Apartheid Era|apartheid]] era in [[South Africa]], the concept was given a different meaning. The white government had designated approximately 25% of its non-desert territory for black tribal settlement. Whites and other non-blacks were restricted from owning land or settling in those areas. After 1948 they were gradually granted an increasing level of "home-rule". From 1976 several of these regions were granted independence. Four of them were declared independent nations by South Africa, but were unrecognized as independent countries by any other nation besides each other and South Africa. The territories set aside for the African inhabitants were also known as [[bantustans]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
* In Australia, the term refers to relatively small Aboriginal settlements (referred to also as "outstations") where people with close kinship ties share lands significant to them for cultural reasons. Many such homelands are found across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. The [[homeland movement]] gained momentum in the 1970 and 1980s. Not all homelands are permanently occupied owing to seasonal or cultural reasons.<ref>{{cite journal |title= The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia |year= 1994}}</ref> Much of their funding and support have been withdrawn since the 2000s.<ref>{{cite book | editor-last1=Peterson | editor-first1=Nicolas | editor-last2=Myers | editor-first2=Fred | title=Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia [blurb] | doi=10.22459/ESD.01.2016 | url=https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology/experiments-self-determination|series= Monographs in Anthropology|isbn=9781925022902|date=January 2016| publisher=ANU Press | access-date=2 August 2020 | doi-access=free }}</ref> 
* In [[Turkish language|Turkish]], the concept of "homeland", especially in the patriotic sense, is "''ana vatan''" (lit. mother homeland), while "''baba ocağı''" (lit. father's [[hearth]]) is used to refer to one's childhood home. (Note: The Turkish word "''ocak''" has the double meaning of ''january'' and ''fireplace'', like the Spanish "''hogar''", which can mean "home" or "hearth".){{citation needed|date=August 2020}}