refoulement

Borrowed from French refoulement (“act of pushing something back (as gunpowder into a gun barrel, or water by a dam); act of water overflowing; forced relocation of a group of people; forced repatriation of asylum-seekers or refugees”), from refouler (“to cause to flow or turn back; to repress, suppress; to repulse; to trample on again”) (from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + fouler (“to impress, stamp; to trample, walk on; to mistreat, oppress”) (ultimately from Medieval Latin fullare (“to make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to full”), from Latin fullō (“one who fulls cloth, fuller”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to blow; to inflate, swell”)) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually denoting resulting actions or states).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈfuːlmɒ̃/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˌfulˈmɑn/
• Rhymes: (GA pronunciation) -ɒn
• Hyphenation: re‧foule‧ment

refoulement (countable and uncountable, plural refoulements)

1. (international law)
   1. (uncountable) The involuntary sending of refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin or another one, where they are likely to face persecution and harm.
      • 2020 August 26, Gabriel Ewepu-Abuja, “AYM receives UNESCO’s Support to Create Awareness on Migration, COVID-19 in Nigeria, 7 Others”, in Vanguard‎, Lagos, Nigeria: Vanguard Media:

        He also expressed concern that at the same time there could be cases of refoulement with asylum seekers being returned to their countries of origin, where they are at risk of persecution and in an apparent breach of international law.

   2. (countable) An instance thereof.

   Antonym: non-refoulement

2. (archaic)
   1. (uncountable) The forced relocation of a group of people.
   2. (countable) An instance of that relocation.

• refoulment

• non-refoulement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French Wikipedia has an article on:

refoulement

Wikipedia ^fr

From refouler +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ful.mɑ̃/

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refoulement m (usually uncountable, plural refoulements)

1. (aviation) push back (air pushing back on an airframe)
2. psychological repression
3. (refugee law) in refugee law, the term for a country returning a refugee or refugee claimant to the country of origin or to danger; refoulment

• non-refoulement

• “refoulement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.