“Remigrate. » In a single word, the United States Department of Homeland Security caused a small cataclysm on X. Nearly 4.5 million views, more than 5,000 shares and a thousand comments in less than 24 hours. The publication was mainly shared by the Western nationalist and identity spheres. Like the influencer Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who prided herself on being part of the “remigration generation”.
Remigrate.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 14, 2025
In France, it was Reconquête which widely relayed it. By Éric Zemmour first, by rewriting the word “remigration”originally published in English by the US government. Then by Hilaire Bouyé, president of Génération Zemmour and former candidate in the legislative by-election for the second constituency of Paris, who added: “We will be the generation of remigration! »
Remigration. https://t.co/TvaJYdliFG
— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) October 15, 2025
Protesters calling for “remigration” to the West
This word appeared in the 1980s-1990s in identity circles and became popular in the 2010s. First a slogan carried by activists, it became a project for certain right-wing political parties. In common parlance, it refers to the action of sending back to their country of origin immigrants, often from outside Europe, who have committed offenses or crimes in the host country.
In a growing number of Western societies, faced with massive immigration, activists and demonstrators brandish this word as a mode of action aimed at public authorities. In the United Kingdom, for example, mobilizations were organized this summer to demand the “remigration” migrants housed in asylum hotels and suspected of sexually assaulting young British women.
