Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
A banner advocating "remigration" during an anti-immigration protest in Calais, France, in 2015

Remigration,[1] also called repatriation,[2][3] is a far-right and Identitarian political concept referring to the forced or promoted return of non-ethnically European immigrants, often including their descendants who were born in Europe, back to their place of racial origin, typically with no regard for their citizenship.[4][5] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement in Europe.[6][7] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some residents with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly-defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[8][9][10]

Advocates of remigration promote the concept in pursuit of ethno-cultural homogeneity.[10] According to Deutsche Welle, ethnopluralism, the Nouvelle Droite concept that different ethnicities require their own segregated living spaces, creates a need for remigration of people with "foreign roots".[11] Scholar José Ángel Maldonado has compared the idea to a "soft type of ethnic cleansing under the guise of deportation and segregation".[12]

Presented by far-right extremists as a remedy to mass immigration and the perceived Islamisation of Europe, remigration has increasingly become an integral policy position of the Identitarian movement.[13][14] Research from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, conducted in April 2019, showed a distinct rise in conversations about remigration on Twitter between 2012 and 2019.[15] Twitter, now-owned by Elon Musk, and Telegram have been at the forefront of spreading the term into the mainstream.[16]

  1. ^ "Death toll in mosque attacks rises to 50". National Post. March 15, 2019. Camus held firm to his notion that immigrants are replacing natives in France and elsewhere. He says it is a "changing of the people" that should be combated with what he calls "re-immigration" and not with violence.
  2. ^ Buck, Christopher (2009). Religious Myths and Visions of America: How Minority Faiths Redefined America's World Role. ABC-CLIO. pp. 114–115. ISBN 978-0-313-35959-0.
  3. ^ "Parti de L'In-nocence". In-nocence. Retrieved 2019-08-05. Il n'est d'autre chance de retour à la paix civile et à la dignité que la libération du sol national et le retour chez eux des colonisateurs: remigration, Grand Rapatriement.
  4. ^ Feffer, John (2020). Right Across the World: The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response. Pluto Press. pp. 48–49. hdl:20.500.12657/51072. ISBN 9781786808554 – via library.oapen.org.
  5. ^ McAdams, A. James; Castrillon, Alejandro (26 September 2021). Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy. Routledge. pp. 12, 74. ISBN 978-1-000-43190-2 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Richards, Imogen (2019). "A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of "Generation Identity": Fascism, Online Media, and the European New Right". Terrorism and Political Violence. 12 (1): 28–47. doi:10.1080/09546553.2019.1662403. ISSN 0954-6553. S2CID 210643607. Demonstrating GI's exclusionary politics, its members advocate for what they term a policy of forced "remigration," in which migrants (from primarily Middle Eastern, North African, and Muslim-majority nations), would be forced to return to their countries of origin
  7. ^ Nissen, Anita (2020), Norocel, Ov Cristian; Hellström, Anders; Jørgensen, Martin Bak (eds.), "The Trans-European Mobilization of "Generation Identity"", Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe, IMISCOE Research Series, Springer International Publishing, pp. 85–100, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-41694-2_6, ISBN 978-3-030-41694-2, The call for so-called "remigration" of third-country immigrants is a term GI France has adopted from BI, referring to the (forced) returning of third-country immigrants to their home countries.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Europe’s far-right identitarians was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ ""Réémigration", négationnisme, "race congoïde"... Les mauvaises ondes d'Henry de Lesquen, le patron de Radio Courtoisie". France Info (in French). 2016-12-07. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
  10. ^ a b "Debatte Begriffe der neuen Rechten - Neue Wörter, alter Hass" [Debate terms of the new right - New words, old hate]. Die Tageszeitung (in German). July 1, 2019. [...] jedoch auch offizielle AfD-Accounts, welche fordern, dass syrische Flüchtlinge abgeschoben werden sollen, oder befinden, dass für „Türken", die sich „nicht integrieren wollen", eine Remigration das beste wäre. [...] liegt eine der größten Gefahren für offene und demokratische Gesellschaften in der Naivität gegenüber den politischen Bemühungen, extremistische Rhetorik zu normalisieren
  11. ^ "How dangerous is the Identitarian Movement?". Deutsche Welle. 13 July 2019.
  12. ^ Maldonado, José Ángel (2020). "Manifestx: toward a rhetoric loaded with future". Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 17 (1): 104–110. doi:10.1080/14791420.2020.1723799. ISSN 1479-1420. S2CID 216420424.
  13. ^ "La "remigration", un concept qui essaime au-delà des identitaires" [Remigration, a concept that goes beyond identity]. Libération (in French). April 12, 2019. A key concept of French identity thought, remigration is a new euphemism for an old phenomenon, namely the forced displacement of entire populations. This notion is an integral part of the ideological project of the identity movement and figures prominently in its literature
  14. ^ Leeb, Claudia (n.d.). "The Right Extremist Identitarian Movement in Europe: A Critical Theory Analysis". The Right Extremist Identitarian Movement in Europe: A Critical Theory Analysis (2): 71–88. doi:10.1400/281871.
  15. ^ "Taboos fall away as far-right EU candidates breach red line". Associated Press. May 16, 2019. "remigration," the chilling notion of returning immigrants to their native lands in what amounts to a soft-style ethnic cleansing.
  16. ^ Tirone, Jonathan; Nicoletti, Leonardo (September 28, 2024). "'Remigration': How a White Nationalist Threat Spread From Austria to the US". Bloomberg News. Retrieved October 6, 2024.