Framing Immigration in Western Europe

Helbling, Marc

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2013.830888

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“…Though there is a growing number of studies dealing with party representation in media coverage on issues related to immigration (e.g., Helbling, 2014;Koopmans, Statham, Giugni, & Passy, 2005;Statham & Geddes, 2006), systematic data on the politicization of immigration and the role of parties therein are still missing.…”

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Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009

Meyer

Rosenberger

2015

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The paper explores the role of radical right parties in the politicization of immigration. In scholarly literature, radical right parties are viewed as the owners of the immigration issue and as drivers of its politicization. Against this prevalent view, we argue that the significance of radical right parties in politicizing immigration is overrated: (1) Radical right parties only play a subordinate role in the politicization of immigration, whereas the contribution of mainstream parties to raising issue salience has been underestimated; (2) the politicization of immigration is not related to radical right strength in the party system. The findings are based on media data from a comparative project on public claims-making on immigration in Western European countries (SOM, Support and Opposition to Migration). We discuss our findings in comparison to the relevant literature and suggest avenues for further research.

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Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009

Meyer

Rosenberger

2015

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“…Hence, growing attention has been directed towards the role of domestic political factors in shaping policy outcomes in this field, with the main focus on the role of political parties and public opinion as determinants of liberalizing policies (Howard, 2006;Joppke, 2003;Hansen and Köhler, 2005). Based on their ideological predisposition left-of-center parties are associated with liberalization and deethnicization while the opposite is true for conservative and right-wing parties (Joppke, 2003;Helbling, 2013). Facing a highly immigration-skeptic and latently xenophobic public, however, even left-wing governments will refrain from liberalization if this public opinion gets "activated" through a campaign, a referendum or a successful radical-right party (Howard, 2009(Howard, , 2010.…”

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Political and institutional determinants of immigration policies

Abou-Chadi

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper investigates how the interplay of parties' preferences, political institutions and electoral competition affects the liberalisation of immigration policies. It joins a growing body of research that focuses on the role of domestic factors in shaping immigration policies. While several studies point to the important role of partisanship and the activation of public opinion, they fail to provide a clear mechanism that takes into account differences in parties' preferences as well as the institutional context they act in. By adding two crucial factors to the analysis, this paper presents a new framework for liberal change in the field of immigration politics. Political and Institutional Determinants of Immigration PoliciesTarik Abou-Chadi * tarik.abou-chadi@hu-berlin.de March 11, 2016This paper investigates how the interplay of parties' preferences, political institutions and electoral competition affects the liberalization of immigration policies. It joins a growing body of research that focuses on the role of domestic factors in shaping immigration policies. While several studies point to the important role of partisanship and the activation of public opinion, they fail to provide a clear mechanism that takes into account differences in parties' preferences as well as the institutional context they act in. By adding two crucial factors to the analysis, this paper presents a new framework for liberal change in the field of immigration politics. First, institutional veto points determine if left-of-center parties can reform policies according to their preferences. Second, the degree of electoral competition and the politicization of immigration issues affect how susceptible political parties are to the anti-immigrant sentiment in the population. A time-series cross-section analysis of 11 countries from 1980-2006 shows that left-of-center governments are more likely to pass liberal reforms, but only if they are not facing an open veto point. Moreover, increased levels of electoral competition coupled with a politicization of the immigration issue reduces the likelihood of liberal reforms.For helpful comments I would like to thank Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Marc Helbling, Ellen Immergut, Martin Kroh, as well as the editor and three anonymous reviewers.

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“…Empirically, research investigated important aspects that make up and structure a public debate. For instance, Cinalli and Giugni (2013) Helbling, 2013). While these studies have provided an important theoretical and empirical contribution to identify explanatory variables, they do not offer a systematic study on the discursive strategies applied by the press, further they focus only on the debate related to Muslim immigrants and ignore the questions of how to deal with religious rules and customs of Muslim citizens such as descendants of immigrants.…”

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A crisis of religious diversity: Debating integration in post-immigration Europe

Scalvini

2016

Discourse & Communication

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Abstract. The growing cultural complexity in the face of new immigration waves influences the public understanding of religious diversity. The two central questions of this article are: 'how much religious difference and of what kind is compatible within Europe?' and secondly, 'to what extent Muslim diversity can be integrated into Europe?' This article makes an intervention in these questions and explores the extent to which discourses on religious diversity imply boundary making and aim at limiting religious freedom of Muslims. Empirically, I scrutinize press coverage between 2009 and 2010, the years in which the minarets ban entered the socio-political arena of the European public debate. The methodology adopts a social network analysis to uncover semantic macro-structures and elicit common discourses in the press of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Successively, discourse analysis of relevant samples is applied to examine textual strategies used to legitimate inclusion or exclusion of religious difference.

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Framing Immigration in Western Europe

Cited by 136 publications

References 38 publications

Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009

Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009

Political and institutional determinants of immigration policies

A crisis of religious diversity: Debating integration in post-immigration Europe

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