Migration and the Extreme Right in Western Europe

Migration and the Extreme Right in Western Europe

The relationship between migration and extremist parties has been an overlapping topic in studies of party systems, citizenship, and migration. This body of work has collectively challenged the view that the success of radical right parties in Western Europe is an unavoidable consequence of increased immigration flows. Through a review of four recent studies, this article will attempt to unpack recent scholarly literature with the aim of investigating the salience of the causal link between immigration and the success of radical right parties. The four works studied arrive at separate conclusions due to their different conceptual understandings of agency in party systems as well as their assumptions about the nature of political mobilization. While three feature the mobilization of immigration as an electoral issue as being an important factor for the success of far right parties, one makes the claim that national definitions of citizenship shape both responses to migration within the host state as well as the space available for the radical right.
 
Full text available: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v6i1.209

Nedelcu, Harry

Miller, Chris

Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies; 2011: RERA V6:1 Fall 2011 (backfile abstracts)

2562-8429

10.22215/cjers.v6i1

Centre for European Studies, Carleton University

2011-08-01

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Peer-reviewed Article