Alternative für Deutschland: rhetoric against migrants as a threat to democracy in Germany

Abstract

The field of this artice is the far-right populist AfD party in the context of anti-immigrant rhetoric. I intend to establish to what extent the anti-immigrant agenda and activity can pose a threat to democracy in Germany. The field of research is the ideological background of the AfD. I intend to show what the anti-immigrant arguments stem from and what their boundaries are. In conducting research I adopted the main hypothesis according to which: far-right and populist AfD displaying anti-immigrant rhetoric are increasingly going beyond the boundaries of free speech to extremisms that undermine the constitutional order in Germany. The AfD aims to destabilise the democratic landscape by, among other things, building support for anti-immigrant attitudes.