Before that, however, the museum will show the painting, which it has not exhibited for at least a decade, from June 9 to July 3 as part of a small exhibit that will, according to the museum's director, Charles L. Venable, "contextualize it in a larger world of provenance research and repatriation of works of art".
It is hard to be certain about the extent of the Chinese government's involvement in the repatriation of works of Chinese art.
There are no immediate details of how the repatriation scheme might work for those declared to be illegal migrants but one point agreed with the French was a move to open a support centre for migrants in Niger under the auspices of the International Organisation for Migration by the end of this year.
In addressing the issue of repatriation, Yoon's work joins Choi In-hun's The Square (1960; newly translated by Kim Seong-kon) and Ha Jin's War Trash (2004), Korean War novels in which protagonists struggle with the question of what to do after the ceasefire.
There have been reports on the repatriation of boys working as camel jockeys in the Middle East, the children of the Geneva Camp, a camp of Pakistani refugees seeking to return to Pakistan, and a feature on a child rickshaw puller.
Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister, and France's president, François Hollande, agreed in 2013 to work towards repatriation.
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Ayau, who is fifty-three, has worked on repatriation cases for more than half his life.
It is the first time that European Union members, who are supposed to harmonize policies on all aspects of migration, including repatriation and asylum, have worked together in this way.
