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Croyances erronées ou simples approximations ? Comprendre les perceptions du public sur l’immigration

Marco Bitschnau — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:53:30 +0000

On pourrait penser que la plupart des personnes entretiennent des perceptions erronées sur l’immigration. Pourtant, nombre de ces croyances erronées relèvent davantage d’estimations hasardeuses que de convictions solidement ancrées. De nouvelles données issues d’une enquête menée en Suisse montrent que cette distinction a des implications importantes pour la compréhension de

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False Beliefs or Just Bad Guesses? Understanding Public Views on Immigration

Marco Bitschnau — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:48:28 +0000

You might think that most people have misperceptions about immigration. Yet many false beliefs are merely low-confidence guesses, rather than firmly held views. New Swiss survey evidence shows that this distinction has important implications for understanding public opinion and for the quality of democratic debate. Public debate is quick to

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Gender and the Far Right: How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Hides in Gender-Skeptic Discourse

Irina Radu — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:57:50 +0000

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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Amoral Immobilism: Or, What I Learned From a Half-Year Sabbatical in Rome and Naples?

Gianni D’Amato — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:30:11 +0000

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 Problems of Protection: Lessons from Migrant Vulnerability

Bridget Anderson — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:18:00 +0000

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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Radical Right Populism’s Strategies for Success and the Road Ahead

Anna Marino — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:30:00 +0000

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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Germany’s Populist Right-Wing Party’s Decade of Success

Valentina Tonino — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:30:56 +0000

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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Shifting Dikes: The Dutch Political Transformation Under Geert Wilders

Lisa Johan — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:30:09 +0000

The political landscape of the Netherlands underwent a drastic change in 2023. After 11 years, the longest-standing prime minister, Mark Rutte, left a power vacuum that would reshape Dutch politics. Geert Wilders, long considered a political outsider, emerged as the winner of the elections held in 2023. But how did

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The Siren’s Song: Iberian Variations of the Populist Radical Right Script

Sara de Athouguia Filipe — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:52:03 +0000

With a widespread rise of populist radical right (PRR) parties, Vox in Spain and Chega in Portugal have adapted the anti-immigration and anti-establishment narrative to address country-specific issues like national unity and economic inequality. The focus on these issues accounts for programmatic singularities that, while consistent with a broader PRR

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Italy Setting Trends in the European Radical Right: The Success of Fratelli d’Italia

Anna Marino — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:30:36 +0000

Fratelli D’Italia (FdI), Italy’s leading Populist Radical Right (PRR) party, has become a model for far-right movements across Europe following its success in the Italian elections in 2022. The party was extremely successful in presenting itself as a novelty within the context of radical right populism. Its main tenets –

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