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Support and Opposition to Migration
Didier RuedinUniversity of the Witwatersrand &University of NeuchâtelSupport and Opposition to Migration in PortugalLisbon, 31 October 2016
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Four actor types politicizing migration
period: 1995 to 2009
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Politicization = salience + polarization
Van der Brug et al. 2015
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Stock of immigrants
Foreign-born population (in millions); Van der Brug et al. 2015
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Share of immigrants
Percentage Foreign-born population; Van der Brug et al. 2015
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Increasing concern over immigration
'Immigration' as one of three most important issues; Van der Brug et al.
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More politicization where
more immigrants
immigrants make political claims
immigrants are culturally different
position on immigration coincides with other issues
new leaders
economic crisis
political system open to challengers
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Changes over time
all countries combined; Van der Brug et al. 2015
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Government actors are main claim-makers
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Van der Brug, Wouter, Gianni D’Amato, Joost Berkhout, and Didier Ruedin, eds. 2015. The Politicisation of Immigration. Abingdon: Routledge.
Berkhout, Joost, and Didier Ruedin. 2016. Why Religion? Immigrant Groups as Objects of Political Claims on Immigration and Civic Integration in Western Europe, 1995–2009. Acta Politica. Forthcoming.
Wouter van der Brug , Joost Berkhout. 2015. The Effect of Associative Issue Ownership on Parties’ Presence in the News Media. West European Politics. 38(4). DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2015.1039379
Meyer, Sarah, Sieglinde Rosenberger. 2015. Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009. Politics and Governance. 3(2). DOI: 10.17645/pag.v3i2.64
Ruedin, Didier. 2015. Increasing Validity by Recombining Existing Indices: MIPEX as a Measure of Citizenship Models. Social Science Quarterly. 96(2): 629-638. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12162
Morales, Laura, Jean-Benoit Pilet, and Didier Ruedin. 2015. The Gap between Public Preferences and Policies on Immigration: A Comparative Examination of the Effect of Politicization on Policy Congruence. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 41(9):1495-1516. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1021598
Ruedin, Didier, Camilla Alberti, and Gianni D’Amato. 2015. Immigration and integration policy in Switzerland, 1848 to 2014. Swiss Political Science Review. 21(1): 5-22. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12144
Morales, L., Pardos-Prado, S., Ros, V. 2014. Issue emergence and the dynamics of electoral competition around immigration in Spain. Acta Politica. DOI: 10.1057/ap.2014.33
Ruedin, D. 2013. The Role of Language in the Automatic Coding of Political Texts, Swiss Political Science Review. 19(4): 539-45. DOI:10.1111/spsr.12050
Ruedin, D. 2013. Obtaining Party Positions on Immigration in Switzerland: Comparing Different Methods. Swiss Political Science Review., 19(1): 84-105. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12018
Cunningham, Kevin. 2014. “Policy Shifts and the Depoliticization of Immigration.” In Enacting Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Integration, edited by Louis Brennan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sarah Meyer & Teresa Peintinger: (K)eine Stimme für MigrantInnen? Inklusion und Exklusion in der Politisierung von Migration. In: Ilker Atac/Sieglinde Rosenberger (Hg.): Politik der Inklusion und Exklusion. Wien: V&R unipress, S. 177-196
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In summary, country-specific factors and political leadership matter
Government actors dominate claims-making
Civil society actors (and journalists) as counter pole
http://www.som-project.eu