(noun) the forced removal of immigrants, regardless of their citizenship status
“All America wants for Christmas is remigration,” as the US Department of Homeland Security tweeted last week — a neat end to a year in which a term once confined to academia and the far right entered the mainstream political lexicon.
Among academics, “remigration” is the study of immigrants who voluntarily return to their point of origin, often refugees or people on temporary worker visas. But it has also been used by those on the outermost reaches of the far right — as popularised by Austrian ideologue Martin Sellner — who believe that ethnic diversity is a threat. One of the routes to fighting this, they argue, is deportation.