refoulement
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹəˈfuːlmɒ̃/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹəˌfulˈmɑn/
- Rhymes: (GA pronunciation) -ɒn
- Hyphenation: re‧foule‧ment
Noun
editrefoulement (countable and uncountable, plural refoulements)
- (international law, uncountable) The sending of a refugee involuntarily to a geographic region where they will likely experience substantial harm; (countable) an instance of this.
- Antonym: non-refoulement
- 2020 August 26, Gabriel Ewepu-Abuja, “AYM [Afrika Youth Movement] receives UNESCO’s Support to Create Awareness on Migration, COVID-19 in Nigeria, 7 Others”, in Vanguard[1], Lagos, Nigeria: Vanguard Media:
- He also expressed concern that at the same time there could be cases of refoulement with asylum seekers being returned to their countries of origin, where they are at risk of persecution and in an apparent breach of international law.
- (archaic, uncountable) The forced relocation of a group of people; (countable) an instance of this.
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References
edit- ^ “refoulement, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “refoulement, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
edit- non-refoulement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
editEtymology
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editNoun
editrefoulement m (usually uncountable, plural refoulements)
- (aviation) push back (air pushing back on an airframe)
- psychological repression
- (refugee law) in refugee law, the term for a country returning a refugee or refugee claimant to the country of origin or to danger; refoulment
Antonyms
editFurther reading
edit- “refoulement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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