Immigration and Voting Patterns in the European Union
Autor: | Marta Pachocka, Jan Misiuna, Todd Sorensen, Ethan Grumstrup |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Polymers and Plastics media_common.quotation_subject Refugee Geography Planning and Development Refugee crisis Immigration Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Politics Voting Political economy Political science media_common.cataloged_instance Business and International Management European union Immigrant population Demography media_common Cross country analysis |
Zdroj: | Migration Letters. 18:573-589 |
ISSN: | 1741-8992 1741-8984 |
Popis: | Tempers flared in Europe in response to the 2015 European Refugee Crisis, prompting some countries to totally close their borders to asylum seekers. This was seen to have fueled anti-immigrant sentiment, which grew in Europe along with the support for far-right political parties that had previously languished. This sparked a flurry of research into the relationship between immigration and far-right voting, which has found mixed and nuanced evidence of immigration increasing far-right support in some cases, while decreasing support in others. To provide more evidence to this unsettled debate in the empirical literature, we use data from over 400 European parties to systematically select cases of individual countries. We augment this with a cross-country quantitative study. Our analysis finds little evidence that immigrant populations are related to changes in voting for the right. Our finding gives evidence that factors other than immigration are the true cause of rises in right-wing voting. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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