Remigration – How a Term of the Identitarian Movement Became a Political Battle Cry in Europe

Few terms have polarized the European migration debate as strongly in recent years as "remigration". What originally was a catchword of small identitarian groups has meanwhile become a fixed part of the political vocabulary of various right-wing populist and right-wing extremist parties. While supporters understand it as a consistent return policy for migrants obliged to leave, critics see a political concept that goes far beyond existing migration law and calls into question fundamental principles of the democratic rule of law. The debate exemplifies how political terms from ideological fringe milieus ...