noun · countable / uncountable · rare

refoulement

re·foule·ment

refoulement · refoulements

Zurückweisung unter Zwang, Zwangsabschiebung, Zwangsdeportation, Ausschaffung

The involuntary sending of refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin or…The involuntary sending of refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin or another one, where they are likely to face persecution and harm.

UK/ɹəˈfuːlmɒ̃/US/ɹəˌfulˈmɑn/

Meaning

4 senses

(uncountable)The involuntary sending of refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin or another one, where they are likely to face persecution and harm.
Zurückweisung unter Zwang, Zwangsabschiebung, Zwangsdeportation
(countable)An instance thereof.
(archaic, uncountable)The forced relocation of a group of people.
Zwangsumsiedlung, Vertreibung
(archaic, countable)An instance of that relocation.

Translations

2 languages

Deutsch

By meaning 2

involuntary sending:

forced relocation:

Origin

Borrowed from French refoulement (“act of pushing something back (as gunpowder into a gun

Borrowed from French refoulement (“act of pushing something back (as gunpowder into a gun barrel, or water by a dam); act of water overflowing; forced relocation of a group of people; forced repatriation of asylum-seekers or refugees”), from refouler (“to cause to flow or turn back; to repress, suppress; to repulse; to trample on again”) (from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + fouler (“to impress, stamp; to trample, walk on; to mistreat, oppress”) (ultimately from Medieval Latin fullare (“to make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to full”), from Latin fullō (“one who fulls cloth, fuller”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to blow; to inflate, swell”)) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually denoting resulting actions or states).

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