‘We are Generation Remigration and we claim our countries back!’ The slogan is spreading like wildfire on Elon Musk’s X platform, reposted or shared as a caption to photos by mostly white, European young women. Their message is clear: the youth of Europe no longer tolerate what many describe as the ‘rape of Europe’ by the masses of Islamic migrants flooding year after year into the Old Continent, unable or unwilling to integrate, creating parallel societies and showing little to no respect towards European culture and people.

While these sentiments have existed in Europe—especially among younger generations—for some time, Generation Remigration now has faces. The initiative was launched by Dutch right-wing political commentator Eva Vlaardingerboek, who posted a video on X on 1 September with the caption: ‘It’s time to claim our countries back. I am part of Generation Remigration.’

Vlaardingerboek begins by stating that it has become difficult to ‘keep track of the number of European boys and girls who were assaulted, raped and/or murdered by immigrants’ in just the past few weeks alone. She points out that ‘Europeans have been replaced, sold out and betrayed’ by their own governments. ‘As a result of their open border policies of mass migration, we are no longer safe and no longer at home in our own homelands,’ she adds. Vlaardingerboek then draws a striking comparison between Europe today and that of her great-grandparents’ time: ‘they did not have to be afraid about sending their kids out to play at a park. They did not have to be afraid about biking back home at night. They did not have to be afraid about taking public transport. They did not have to be afraid in general of being raped and/or murdered by immigrants in the public sphere.’

Concluding her video, Vlaardingerboek issues a rallying cry to Europe’s youth:

‘The fact that we never got to know that Europe doesn’t mean we don’t have a right to it, because being at home in your own country and being safe in your own country is not a privilege, it is your right. And therefore, I claim my country back. We Europeans have to claim our countries back. I was born in 1996 and I am part of Generation Remigration. And I hope so are you.’

The video quickly went viral, garnering around 2M views, 90k likes and 25k reposts. Among those amplifying it were other well-known right-wing political commentators and journalists, such as Norwegian journalist Rebecca Mistereggen, Evelina Hahne from Sweden, US-based journalist Vicky Richter, and Spanish conservative activist Ada Lluch. The movement is especially strong in Scandinavia, Central Europe and, of course, in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Collectively, these influencers represent millions of followers across platforms, engaging young Europeans who are increasingly rejecting the mainstream narrative. They spread a message that is unambiguously anti-immigration and anti-establishment—an outlook born from being the first generation to spend its formative years enduring the increasingly intolerable, and often deadly, consequences of illegal migration.

Women Are Directly Endangered

It is hardly an exaggeration when Vlaardingerboek claims that immigration-related assaults and murders in Europe have become too numerous to count. Just in the past two months, cases have been reported EU-wide, from Spain and Belgium to the Netherlands and Germany: a 17-year-old from a migrant minors’ centre detained for the rape of a 14-year-old in Madrid; a 26-year-old Gambian accused of two sexual assaults in Rome; a 22-year-old asylum centre resident in Amsterdam arrested for sexual violence and later named as a suspect in the death of a 17-year-old girl; and two Hungarian tourists raped by three Moroccans in Italy.

These are not isolated cases but symptoms of a wider trend. Eurostat data show reported sexual violence increased by nearly 80 per cent in the past decade, while rapes alone rose by over 140 per cent. In 2023, more than 243,000 sexual violence offences were recorded, including over 91,000 rapes. Sweden’s 2018 report revealed that 58 per cent of convicted rapists had a foreign background, with 40 per cent born in the Middle East or Africa. In stranger assault cases, three-quarters of perpetrators were born outside Europe, and nearly half were recent arrivals. Similar overrepresentation of immigrants is evident in German and Dutch crime statistics.

It is therefore no coincidence that women have become the main faces of Generation Remigration. They are the ones most directly endangered by the reckless and failed migration policies of Europe’s elites—those who continue to promote mass migration and open borders at the expense of the safety of ordinary citizens.

Stronger Than It Seems

‘Generation Remigration’ is not merely a slogan. The term ‘remigration’ dates back to the 17th century and originally described the voluntary return of exiles or refugees between England and France. It was revived in recent decades by the European Identitarian movement as shorthand for the large-scale deportation of migrants. Its ideological foundation was provided by Renaud Camus in ‘Le Grand Remplacement’, which argued that a ‘Great Replacement’ of Europeans by non-white immigrants is being orchestrated by global elites. Austrian activist Martin Sellner later rebranded remigration in the mid-2010s as a principled, palatable alternative to blunt terms like ‘deportation’, helping it gain traction in German-speaking Europe.

Today, remigration is openly endorsed by parties such as Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Germany and Herbert Kickl’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) in Austria—both currently leading their national polls. It is also advocated by Vlaams Belang in Belgium, the Finns Party, Salvini’s Lega in Italy, Geert Wilders’ PVV and Forum for Democracy in the Netherlands, Spain’s Vox, Alternative for Sweden, and Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête in France.

‘Hungary’s stance has shielded it from the chaos that other Western countries now face’

What binds many of these parties is their participation in the European Parliament group Patriots for Europe (PfE), co-founded by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Although Orbán has never explicitly called for remigration, Hungary’s migration policy—closing its borders in 2015 and refusing to admit illegal migrants—is praised across conservative and alt-right circles. Hungary’s stance has shielded it from the chaos that other Western countries now face. For years, Orbán has urged Brussels and other EU states to abandon open borders, secure Europe’s frontiers, and address the root causes of migration in origin countries. Many argue that had the EU listened, Generation Remigration would never have had to arise.

But it has arisen. It is gaining strength day by day. And unlike the placid slogans of the establishment, it now has faces—young, determined Europeans, supported by a growing political force in Brussels: the Patriots for Europe.

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