The article examines the politicisation of immigration in Europe during the so-called
migration crisis. Based on original media data, it traces politicisation during national election …

ABSTRACT PM Viktor Orbán's government in Hungary is often seen as one of the
paradigmatic cases of illiberalism and an intense contestation of immigration. This paper …

Radical right parties are strong competitors of the centre-right in many party systems. In this
article, we first show that the centre-right's overall stability in terms of vote share masks clear …

This article asks how policy responses to migration in Italy have been shaped both by issue
salience and by changing configurations on the centre right of Italian party politics both prior …

This article analyses the CDU/CSU's immigration policies and discourses during the
Chancellorship of Angela Merkel. In doing so, it makes four observations. First, the article …

Over the past twenty-five years, Germany has seen substantial shifts towards more robust
and expansive migration and integration policies addressing immigration primarily as a …

The 2018 election made it clear the Swedish politics of migration no longer was an outlier in
comparative European perspective. In this contribution, we analyse some of the reasons …

Anti-immigrant claims are seen as key to the success of populist radical right parties
(PRRPs) in parliamentary opposition. Yet migrant integration policies adopted by PRRPs in …

This article looks at the immigration profile of the Austrian centre right. It examines whether
the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) can be considered an anti-immigrant party by …

The refugee crisis which hit the European Union and its member states during 2015-16 was
just one in a series of recent crises, but perhaps the most critical for the EU's resilience. This …