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"Remigration": Between Voluntary Return and Racist Mass Deportation

It's the bad word of the year: "remigration". And what it means has brought hundreds of thousands of people in Germany onto the streets for demonstrations in recent days: namely the new edition of German mass deportations, which high-ranking AfD politicians, neo-Nazis and financially strong entrepreneurs fantasised about at a conference in Potsdam in November. Dr Florian Wagner, historian and member of the "Voluntariness" research group at the University of Erfurt, has taken a closer look at the term in a blog post.

Read the entire article in the blog of the "Voluntariness" research group! (in German only)

Interview on youtube

Dr Annegret Schüle also spoke to Dr Florian Wagner about the genesis of concepts of "remigration" and the continuities from colonialism and National Socialism to today's 'völkisch' plans to create an apartheid state. Schüle is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Erfurt and director of the Topf&Söhne memorial centre. Florian Wagner works in the DFG research group on voluntarism at the University of Erfurt on the history of the terms "remigration" and "repatriation".

link to the interview on youtube

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