The act or process of uprooting; forced removal from one's homeland or cultural context.
From Latin 'deracinatio', formed from 'deracinate' + '-ion' suffix. The noun form became prominent in 19th and 20th century historical and sociological writing about displacement.
The concept of deracination was central to debates about colonialism—indigenous peoples called out how European powers didn't just take land, they deracinated entire cultures, erasing languages and traditions.
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