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Remigration and the Borders of Belonging: Populist Rhetoric, Sovereignty, and the Construction of the Migrant ‘Other’ in Giorgia Meloni’s Discourse
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Global Political Studies (GPS).
2025 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 12 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

In 2019, a confidential meeting in Potsdam, Germany brought together leading figures of the European far-right to strategize about the continent’s political future. At the center of these discussions was the idea of remigration, the proposed mass deportation of non-European migrants to their countries of origin (Goetz, 2024). Once confined to extremist fringes, the term has since gained ideological traction across European far-right movements, increasingly appearing in party platforms, media narratives, and public discourse. Drawing from the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, remigration is presented as the cure to the “perceived sickness” of mass immigration, demographic decline, and cultural displacement, mobilizing deep-rooted anxieties over identity, sovereignty, and civilizational survival (Kononova, 2024). While countries like France and Germany have long served as incubators for these ideas, Italy is now emerging as a key site for their normalization, steadily aligning itself with the broader European trend that frames migration as a threat and remigration as an urgent political response. This shift raises urgent questions about the mainstreaming of ethno-nationalist ideas and their implications for democracy, citizenship, and human rights in Europe.

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2025. , p. 51
Keywords [en]
Remigration, far-right discourse, populism, national identity, cultural homogeneity, Italy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-78302OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-78302DiVA, id: diva2:1978288
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KS GPS Human Rights
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Available from: 2025-08-12 Created: 2025-06-27 Last updated: 2025-08-29Bibliographically approved

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