Over the past two years, a new trend has emerged in populist politics around Europe: remigration.
The term denotes a demand for the systemic deportation of irregular migrants, with fringes pushing it also to regular migrants committing “serious crimes”.
After years of diffusion in niche groups, it is now gaining space in the political debate around Europe, with policymakers claiming the beginning of “the era of deportations”.
The most recent achievement of this movement has been the approval of the Return Regulation at the European Parliament on 17 June.
Thanks to a voting alliance between the center-rights group and the far-right groupings (and with a last minute support from several liberal MEPs), the parliament passed one of its toughest pieces of legislation on migration.
