Protest emigration

Protest emigration (also called hijrat or deshatyaga in South Asia) is the use of emigration as an activist tactic when it is felt political change is not currently possible inside a jurisdiction. Gene Sharp in The Politics of Nonviolent Action describes this as a form of social noncooperation. In some traditions, such emigrations have been symbolically analogized to the Hijrah or to the Exodus. rdf:langString