The phrase "a fear of return" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing anxieties or apprehensions related to going back to a previous situation, place, or state.
Example: "After years of living abroad, she felt a fear of return, worried that everything would have changed."
Alternatives: "anxiety about returning" or "apprehension of going back".
Sometimes they fail to express a fear of return because they feel guilty or somehow responsible for their own victimization.
She and other lawyers have been forced to ask children who can barely read questions such as "Do you want to go back to your home country where you expressed a fear of return?
Only if the migrant successfully expresses to the Border Patrol that he has a fear of return will he be allowed to consult an attorney and speak to an asylum officer.
Once in "expedited removal" proceedings at a port of entry, the only way for an arriving non-citizen to be allowed to consult an attorney -- or to otherwise have his case reviewed before removal from the United States -- is to convince the immigration inspector that he has a fear of return.
Millman, however, fails to provide the context behind the article's theme that many undocumented immigrants apprehended by the Border Patrol are "playing the asylum card," claiming a fear of return to their country of origin in order to delay or avoid deportation.
All three discussed escaping violence and poverty in their home countries and a fear of returning to their previous lives.
A fear of "returning to a mountain of work" was the top factor cited as keeping Americans from taking time off.
Experts say the U.S. government needs to start treating unaccompanied children more like humans than criminals, and that kids who express a fear of returning back home should never be turned away.
Despite clear mandates in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and in asylum law, Customs and Border Protection does not adequately screen minors or others to determine whether they have a fear of returning to their country or are vulnerable to trafficking.
"There is a fear of the return of the Taliban".
In general, they share a fear of a return to dot-com failures like Webvan and a coming tide of unicorpses washing up on the shore.
