People want to leave their home country for various reasons. Someone hopes to find a well-paid job abroad. Overseas life seems to some less problematic than life at home. But the hero of Exupery was right. Well, where we do not. According to statistics, every second emigrant sooner or later has a desire to return to his homeland.
Definition
What is re-emigration? These are borrowings from the Latin language. It is easy to guess what re-emigration is, knowing the meaning of the antonym. Ēmigrātio - departure, eviction. Re-emigration is a return.
The word comes from the Latin language. However, the meaning that the term has today, it acquired many centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire. In recent centuries, people often left their homes. And just as often returned to their homeland. Why do people leave the country in which they were born? What are the causes of re-emigration?
French immigrants
What is re-emigration, we figured out. But it’s worth a few words to say about the reasons that prompt a person to change citizenship. Emigration - a concept denoting a massive resettlement of residents from one country to another (or others). This phenomenon may have several reasons. The main ones are economic, political events, as a result of which life at home becomes complicated, sometimes unbearable.
At the end of the 18th century, a revolution took place in France. As always in such situations, there were supporters and opponents of the new government. The latter, and among them were exclusively noblemen, had to leave their homeland. They went to the west of Germany, or rather to the city of Koblenz. Here, French emigrants frightened local residents with tales of the upcoming revolution, tried to adapt to the German way of life. The Germans treated them without much sympathy. It is worth saying that the influx of emigrants never causes positive emotions among the indigenous people.
What is re-emigration? Oddly enough, this is a phenomenon that almost always follows after emigration. At the beginning of the 19th century, French nobles began to return home. The new government promised them to return the lost rights, estates, lands. Many, indeed, managed to restore their status. In our country, re-emigrants were not always treated so humanely.
White emigration
People have not left any country so fiercely as Russia. Historians distinguish three waves of Russian emigration. The first began after the revolution. It is worth saying that among emigrants in all countries and at all times nobles prevailed.
After the events of 1917, the military, doctors, scientists, writers, artists began to leave Russia. Young promising professionals were forced to realize their potential abroad. This is not to say that in Europe, Russian immigrants have always had a wonderful life. However, in the homeland of many of them there was a prison, execution.
It is simple to answer the question of what re-emigration is. It is much more difficult to understand its causes. In the late thirties, Russian emigrants began to return to their homeland, which by that time had already become completely different. They returned at the invitation of Stalin. The Soviet government promised former citizens housing and other benefits. Many “returnees” did not know anything about what was happening in the USSR. Therefore, they believed the promises of Stalin. Many re-emigrants were removed from the train crossing the USSR border and sent to camps.
Second wave
Before the Second World War, many Germans lived on the territory of the USSR. Those of them who were in the occupation in the forties returned to their historical homeland. Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians fled from the Union. All dissatisfied with the Soviet regime left the country.
Third wave
In the 60s, Soviet citizens, and above all, representatives of the intelligentsia, rushed to the West. Writers were leaving the Soviet Union , whose works were not printed by domestic publishers, artists who were living in obscurity, scientists who were unable to work normally. Ordinary people emigrated, tired of poverty, shortages, and queues.
In Europe and the USA, former Soviet citizens tried to start life from scratch. But few succeeded. And the point, of course, is not the social status and the inability to find a job in the specialty. The reasons for re-emigration are the inability to adapt to an unusual way of life, mentality, the notorious homesickness, nostalgia for childhood and adolescence, which are inextricably linked to their native places.