Remigration

A bold and meticulously argued blueprint for solving Europe’s immigration crisis, and how nations can reclaim their identity in an age of demographic upheaval. 

Across Europe, decades of uncontrolled immigration from the developing world have plunged the continent into an era of political and cultural upheaval. The causes and consequences of this crisis have been endlessly debated—by voices on both the left and the right—but few have seriously considered what a politically realistic and morally defensible solution might look like. 

In Remigration, Austrian writer and activist Martin Sellner presents a clear and unsparing account of how Europe reached this point and what must be done to recover its balance. Far from the caricature of an extremist right-wing demagogue, Sellner writes with restraint and analytic precision. He argues that the continent’s paralysis stems from a “politics of guilt” that made national self-preservation morally suspect and demographic self-replacement inevitable. 

Sellner’s proposal, while controversial, is both humane and meticulously reasoned: The voluntary return of large numbers of unassimilated migrants to their countries of origin, combined with a renaissance of civic confidence at home, opens the path forward for a healthy Europe. 

Drawing on existing European and international models, he outlines how such a policy could be implemented peacefully and pragmatically. Remigration offers a warning from Europe’s experience and a mirror for America’s own immigration dilemmas. As the United States faces unprecedented border pressures, Sellner’s analysis raises the question that defines our time: What constitutes the contemporary nation, and do its people have a right to remain themselves?

Martin Sellner is an activist, author, and influential voice in contemporary debates on identity, free speech, and remigration policy. Born in Vienna in 1989 and raised in Lower Austria, Sellner studied law and philosophy (BA) at the University of Vienna and has become one of the most prominent figures of the New Right in the German-speaking world. Sellner gained public recognition as co-founder and spokesman of the Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ), organizing high-profile campaigns such as “Defend Europe” in the Mediterranean to draw attention to issues of mass immigration and Islamization. Prior to the 2020 deletion of his social media channels, he was the most-followed German-language patriotic influencer across YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Gottfried is a distinguished historian, philosopher, and political theorist whose influential career spans over half a century. Educated at Yeshiva University and Yale, where he studied under renowned political thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse, Gottfried emerged as one of America's most original and provocative conservative intellectuals. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Conservative Movement, The Strange Death of Marxism, Fascism: The Career of a Concept, and Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade. Gottfried is the Raffensperger Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Mises Research Fellow. He currently serves as editor in chief of Chronicles magazine, where he has been a contributing writer since its founding in 1977.