Immigration into the mainstream: Conflicting ideological streams, strategic reasoning and party competition

Odmalm, Pontus; Bale, Tim

doi:10.1057/ap.2014.28

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“…European countries, using claims analysis to capture the positions parties adopted in the public sphere. Given the dilemmas presented by immigration, we can expect left-wing parties to downplay immigration and focus on other issues (Odmalm and Bale, 2015). In line with issue…”

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The positions mainstream left parties adopt on immigration

Carvalho

Ruedin

2018

Party Politics

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Immigration is often perceived as a political topic that overlaps traditional ideological cleavages. Much research has focused on the positions of the extreme right, and little research has examined mainstream parties and their public stances on immigration. This shortcoming hampers broader understanding of political competition on this issue. Drawing on a political claims analysis of 7 countries between 1995 and 2009, we present the salience, position and overall coherence of claims made by mainstream parties on immigration control and immigrant integration. Mainstream left parties adopt a more positive/expansive position on immigration and exhibit higher levels of coherence than centrist and right-wing parties. We also show that the impact of extreme-right parties (ERP) on the political claims of mainstream left parties seems to be limited. Our conclusions highlight that immigration does not necessarily constitute a crosscutting cleavage across mainstream left parties: Their ideological preferences remain aligned with their positive/liberal discourse on immigration control and immigrant integration.

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The positions mainstream left parties adopt on immigration

Carvalho

Ruedin

2018

Party Politics

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“…This consideration may sometimes prevent mainstream parties from taking firm stances on immigration in order to not alienate some of the possible supporters (cf. Lahav 1997;Odmalm & Bale 2015;Välimäki 2017). However, the intra-party discussions of the Centre Party, SDP and SKDL/VAS prior to the 1991 parliamentary election imply that parties can at times also decide to ignore some of their potential sympathizers' views, such as perceived xenophobia, in order to keep the party line on immigration issues.…”

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‘Completely New Challenges’?: <i>Continuity and revision in Finnish political parties’ objectives on immigration, 1986–1991</i>

Välimäki

2019

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This study analyses the discussion of four Finnish parties-Centre Party, National Coalition Party, Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) and Finnish People's Democratic League/Left Alliance (SKDL/VAS; Suomen kansan demokraattinen liitto/Vasemmistoliitto)-on foreign workers, refugees and asylum seekers in 1986-1991. The turn of the 1990s marked a period of substantial change in Finnish immigration policy and legislation and included the first comprehensive immigration policy papers by the parties. The study sheds light on the contemporary history of Finnish party politics and discourses on immigration and the challenges faced by mainstream right-wing and left-wing parties when dealing with immigration. The analysis of a wide range of policy papers and documents produced for parties' internal use indicates that the changes in foreign policy, developments in national demographic and economic circumstances as well as the parties' broad base of supporters and distinctive ideological traditions facilitate explanation of party stances. The parties' objectives of the period represented both continuity and revision in relation to previous decades' considerably restrictive politics.

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“…Most notably, the FPÖ is one of the strongest populist radical right-wing parties in Europe today, having gained 26 per cent of the vote in the 2017 general elections. As in other European countries (Odmalm & Bale, 2015), the mainstream parties hold mixed positions on the issue of migration in an attempt to bridge conflicting preferences among their electorates.…”

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“…The migration and asylum questions cut across traditional cleavages like class and religion. Mainstream parties who emerged upon these traditional cleavages are torn on these issues, while also being pushed by challenger parties who mobilize heavily around these issues (Odmalm & Bale, 2015). Notwithstanding their conflicted positions, mainstream parties, and even parties holding office (Verhoeven & Duyvendak, 2017), engage in the protest arena.…”

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Party activism: the permeability of the asylum protest arena in Austria

Hadj-Abdou

Rosenberger

2019

Social Movement Studies

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This article contributes to the growing field of studies on party–protest linkages that highlight the dynamic nature, complementarity and fuzziness of the parliamentary arena and protest arena. Taking the policy field of asylum, it investigates, first, the conditions for the permeability of the protest arena for party activism and, second, the ways in which party activism shapes and transforms the protest arena. The empirical observations refer to Austria, which has a political framework with highly politicized immigration, strong political parties and a weak protest culture. Methodologically, the paper combines a protest event analysis with two in–depth case studies on protests. The authors argue that the openness of the asylum protest arena for parties is characterized by modest protest demands, and depends on the dominant political position as well as the decision making structure regarding the protest issue. The article demonstrates that pro-asylum protests are less open to political parties than anti-asylum protests, which are in tune with the dominant political position on asylum in Austria. The findings also show that anti–asylum protests are not only more likely to attract the involvement of political parties, but also tend to become instrumentalized for party–competitive ends. Pro–asylum protests, in contrast, keep their substantive, grievance–focused orientation even when political parties step in.

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Immigration into the mainstream: Conflicting ideological streams, strategic reasoning and party competition

Cited by 41 publications

References 51 publications

The positions mainstream left parties adopt on immigration

The positions mainstream left parties adopt on immigration

‘Completely New Challenges’?: <i>Continuity and revision in Finnish political parties’ objectives on immigration, 1986–1991</i>

Party activism: the permeability of the asylum protest arena in Austria

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