Le Pen, the National Front and the Extreme Right in France

Fysh, Peter; Wolfreys, Jim

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“…In the UK, market research by political parties suggests that immigration (and, within that, "illegal" migration) comes fairly low on most peoples' list of priorities when compared with other issues-well behind issues such as the economy, jobs, education, health and crime more generally. Elsewhere in Europe, evidence exists that support for anti-immigration parties reflects a wider disenchantment with the political process and desire to register a protest, rather than necessarily a prioritisation of immigration as the most important issue (Fysh and Wolfreys 1992;Hagelund 2001).…”

Section: Public Concern Over "Illegal" Migrationmentioning

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Breaking the Convention: Researching the “Illegal” Migration of Refugees to Europe

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2003

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The study of refugees by geographers and other social scientists is, almost by definition, framed around a series of legal categories, which provide us with more or less neat categories of types of involuntary migrants. Yet the process of migration emerges in relation to legal categories and is not simply dictated by them. Thus, as legislation on migration in general and the interpretation of the 1951 Geneva Convention in particular have become more restrictive, patterns of migration have increasingly emerged that manipulate, circumvent or simply break existing legislation.This paper examines the responses by researchers in geography and related disciplines to asylum-seeking and other forms of migration that are increasingly categorised as "illegal" as a result of recent European policy developments. Specifically, the potential for participatory and/or emancipatory research in such circumstances is explored, through comparative analysis of the ethical issues involved in radical research on a range of "trafficking" scenarios. The interaction of such research with public policy-making is also examined.

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Section: Public Concern Over "Illegal" Migrationmentioning

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Breaking the Convention: Researching the “Illegal” Migration of Refugees to Europe

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2003

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“…In studies of Germany, Betz (1990Betz ( , 1993a, Chapin (1997), Lubbers and Scheepers (2000), Minkenberg (1992), and Westle and Niedermayer (1992) find high rates of immigration and unemployment are favorable to populist right parties. In studies of Austria (Knight, 1992), Belgium (Fitzmaurice, 1992), France (Fysh & Wolfreys, 1992;Mayer, 1998), Italy (Furlong, 1992;Sidoti, 1992), the Netherlands (Voerman & Lucardie, 1992), and Scandinavian countries (Arter, 1992), immigration is a tailor-made issue for the populist right.…”

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Does Crime Pay? Issue Ownership, Political Opportunity, and the Populist Right in Western Europe

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2010

Comparative Political Studies

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This article contributes to the vast literature concerning extreme right parties in Western Europe by examining the effects of crime on the electoral success of these parties. Utilizing theories of issue ownership and political opportunity, this article argues that populist right parties appeal to voters who feel a sense of physical and social insecurity because of higher levels of crime. This hypothesis is tested using a data set covering 18 Western European countries between 1970 and 2005. The results indicate that populist right parties benefit from higher levels of crime as well as linking crime with higher levels of immigration. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of this analysis.

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“…Although a large body of literature is dedicated to the analysis of how migration affects the global economy [1][2][3][5][6][7][8][9][10] and right-wing (RW) populism [11][12][13][14][15][16][17], much less is known about the limitations of globalization [4,18], especially how large-scale migrations sway popular vote and what the economic consequences may be. Borjas reported slow integration of immigrants into the US, taking four generations to catch up with the earnings of natives instead of one or two as commonly believed [19].…”

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Predicting the Rise of EU Right-Wing Populism in Response to Unbalanced Immigration

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Among the central tenets of globalization is the free migration of labor. Although much has been written about the benefits of globalization, little is known about its limitations and how antiglobalist sentiment can be strongly affected by high levels of immigration. Analyzing poll data from a group of EU countries affected by the recent migrant crisis, we find that over the last three years the percentage of right-wing (RW) populist voters in a given country depends on the prevalence of immigrants in this country's population and the total immigration inflow into the entire EU. The latter is likely due to the perception that the EU functions as a supranational state in which a lack of inner borders means that "someone else's problem" can easily become "my problem." We find that the increase in the percentage of RW voters substantially surpasses the percentage of immigration inflow, implying that if this process continues, ongoing democratic processes will cause RW populism to prevail and globalization to rapidly decrease. We locate tipping points between the fraction of immigrants and the rise of RW populism, and we model our empirical findings using a complex network framework in which the success of globalization rests on a balance between immigration and immigrant integration.

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Le Pen, the National Front and the Extreme Right in France

Cited by 23 publications

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Breaking the Convention: Researching the “Illegal” Migration of Refugees to Europe

Breaking the Convention: Researching the “Illegal” Migration of Refugees to Europe

Does Crime Pay? Issue Ownership, Political Opportunity, and the Populist Right in Western Europe

Predicting the Rise of EU Right-Wing Populism in Response to Unbalanced Immigration

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