Enforced ‘remigration’ fears lifting off among conspiracy-minded in Europe

Europe’s borders with North Africa and Western Asia are already policed much more ruthlessly than the southern borders of the United States.

Austria’s Freedom Party, led by Herbert Kickl, bluntly calls for the expulsion of immigrants. Last month, the party won the Austrian election.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 10, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—‘Remigration’: the word has a harmless origin as a term academics used to describe the phenomenon of migrants who fail to thrive in their new home, and decide to go back to their birth country.

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