remigration

From re- +‎ migration.

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːmaɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/

remigration (countable and uncountable, plural remigrations)

1. Migration again to another place, or back to the place of emigration.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, , published 1677, →OCLC:

     there was a Return of the Jews under Cyrus, which continued in Partial Remigrations for some time after.

   • 2024 October 3, Ashifa Kassam, “How remigration became a buzzword for global far right”, in The Guardian‎:

     While the concept of remigration has long existed in academia, its hijacking by the far right on social media appears to have begun about a decade ago when French adherents to identitarianism, an ethno-nationalist movement, organised what they described as the inaugural meeting in Paris on remigration.

• “remigration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.