internal exile

noun3

1. •
   Banishment to a remote part of one's own country as a punishment or sanction.

   • The Government has said that all those sentenced to three months of internal exile and rehabilitation are ordinary criminals and that there is no political motive for the decision. — 1984
2. •
   (figurative) A sense of alienation and uprootedness.

   • Unless this internal shift can be made, then not only the Russians but all of humanity will continue to languish in an internal exile. — 1995
3. •
   A person thus banished.