Immigration
Today’s far-right parties across Europe have swapped skinhead boots for suits and slogans about race for discussions on “family values.” By attacking feminism and LGBTQA+ rights, they make use of widespread biases while hiding more extreme views. This new image, wrapped in tradition and respectability, allows racism and xenophobia to ...
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As Italy navigates a period of rising nationalism and the influence of a far-right government, a mid-20th-century concept has regained attention. Edward Banfield’s notion of “amoral familism”—a social pattern characterized by strong familial loyalty alongside limited trust in wider society—was originally used to interpret the persistent underdevelopment of a rural
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The COVID-19 pandemic showed we are all vulnerable in a crisis, but also that crisis can deepen inequality. The virus infected (and continues to infect) regardless of race, class and passport, and this is precisely what exposes race, class, and passport as the inequality-producing mechanisms they are. Migrants – or
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Populist radical right parties have gained support in Europe using convincing messaging based on nationalism, nativism, and promises of returning to a “better” past. They have seemed to leverage people’s frustrations with the current challenges by offering simple solutions: a stronger state, traditional values, and security from perceived threats. This
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD), founded in February 2013, began as a Eurosceptic movement and later expanded to challenge immigration policies. In just a decade, the AfD has gained popularity across all federal states by securing significant votes in regional, national, and European elections among all age groups. Initially dismissed
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