inner emigration en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of German innere Emigration, popularized by German writer Frank Thiess in his response to Thomas Mann's BBC broadcast, defending the choice of some German intellectuals to remain in Nazi Germany despite being opposed to Nazism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The retreat to one's private life in the face of an oppressive state, instead of overt opposition or emigration to another country.
Many Easterners went into so-called “inner emigration”, withdrawing from a system whose ideological impulse had long faded.
2023 April 28, Frederick Studemann, “Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC:
Translations (6)
no indre emigrasjon (Translations) · sv inre emigration (Translations) · ru внутренняя эмиграция (Translations) · pl emigracja wewnętrzna (Translations) · de innere Emigration (Translations) · fr émigration intérieure (Translations)