Rethinking ‘nativism’: beyond the ideational approach

Abstract

Existing ideational approaches to nativism tend to conflate the concept with nationalism, xenophobia and populism, as well as overlooking the role of racism and racialisation in the process of constructing the non-native 'out-group', against the native 'in-group'. Inspired by the Discourse Theoretical approach to populism, this article offers a significant conceptual contribution to studies on the far right by interpreting nativism as a racist and xenophobic discourse structured around an exclusionary vision of the nation. This conceptualisation helps identify how xenophobia, nationalism, racism and racialisation all contribute to nativist discourse, how nativism can be clearly demarcated from populism, and how nativist arguments can be articulated by parties beyond the far right.

The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates

“…Although Britain's welfare provision has been funded by international systems of extraction and taxation from times of empire to the present, its distributive function is framed as a national project dedicated to those deemed deserving Good Citizens (Bhambra, 2022). Such ‘nativist’ ideas of an ‘us’, which posit a ‘native people’ in opposition to ‘foreigners’ or even ‘non-integrated co-citizens’, are telling (Newth, 2021). As Shilliam (2018, 6) elaborates through an historical evacuation of Britain's colonial and welfare policy from ‘abolition to Brexit’, deservingness has been racialised from the outset and concatenated with Whiteness.…”

Walking the Tightrope: Populist Radical Right Parties’ Framing of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Migrants in Belgium and Switzerland

“…Scholars have recently argued that purely ideational approaches to nativism can become euphemism, obscuring racism. They emphasize that nativism is a form of racist discourse (De Cleen et al, 2018;Newth, 2021), which contrasts with an ideational approach that defines nativism as anti-immigrant attitudes. Newth provides a definition of nativism as "a discursive element of a broader racist ideology which focuses principally on 'otherness' identity and aspects of cultural difference based on the constructed idea of the nation" (2021).…”

Avrupa’da Aşırı Sağ Partiler ve Göçmenlere Yaklaşımları; Seçilmiş Örnekler

“…1173(Mudde, -1175. Bu çalışma için yapılan literatür taraması sonucu ana akım aşırı sağ için popülizm ve milliyetçiliğin ve onun ileri aşaması olarak yerliciliğin öne çıktığı; aşırı sağ parti ailesinin uç skalasında ise kendini gizleyen bir faşizmin göze çarptığı tespit edilmiştir (Caiani & Weisskircher, 2022;Vieten & Poynting, 2016;Newth, 2021;Kesic & Duyvendak, 2019;Halikiopoulou & Vlandas, 2019;Manuela & Weisskircher, 2002;Goodwin, 2007;Traverso, 2019;Caramani & Manucci, 2019). Dolayısıyla aşırı sağ parti ailesini anlamak için Mudde'nin çizmiş olduğu çerçeve doğrultusunda aşırı sağda popülizm, milliyetçilik-yerlicilik ve faşizm kavramlarını kısaca incelemek yerinde olacaktır.…”