A far-right, white nationalist Austrian who has been permanently banned from the United Kingdom for promoting extremist narratives said this week he hopes Canada won’t deny him entry ahead of a conference he’s set to speak at in Hamilton this month.
Martin Sellner is being marketed as a keynote speaker for an Aug. 29 conference of the Dominion Society, which advocates for “remigration,” the mass deportation of immigrants.
That argument was echoed by Raqib Naik, executive director of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate in Washington, who has been studying how the concept of remigration moved from the political fringes of Europe to the U.S. mainstream.
“For example, Gregory Bovino of the U.S. border control, he mentioned his target is to remigrate around 100 million people. And that is equally the size of non-white population in the U.S.,” Naik said.
“So when they use the term remigration, it is actually inclined at all the non-white populations within those countries.”
The U.S. State Department uses the term remigration to describe its broader migration policy.