SECURITIZATION OF IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE AND ROLE OF POPULIST RIGHT-WING PARTIES

Abstract

In most of the western European countries, Populist Radical Right-wing parties have developed themselves as a permanent feature of their party-structures. Their political success is their resistance to immigrants and multicultural societies. Immigration is their central concern as subscribed by nearly all radical-right populist groups. Though the far-right parties join government coalitions, social scientists consider them to have minimal policy performance. This article, therefore, looks at European Islamophobia and its relation with migration in the EU through the lens of Securitization theory by examining security and political aspects. The content analysis is chosen as a methodology to understand securitization strategy when it comes to identify and separate securitizing actors from audiences. It also analyses the multifaceted ways through which right-wing parties contribute towards maintaining and expanding Islamophobic discourses by securitizing migration.

Bibliography Entry

Sunawar, Lubna, and Raza Muhammad. 2020. "Securitization of Immigration in Europe and Role of Populist Right-Wing Parties." Margalla Papers 24 (2): 83-92.