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<p>How can migrant organisations affiliated to anti-immigration political parties reconcile their party’s ideology with the representation of immigrants? Based on a website content analysis, this article investigates the representative claims of a migrant group affiliated to the Swiss People’s Party. Comparing them to the discourse of its left-wing counterpart, the findings show that the group sets ideological boundaries between immigrants, establishing a hierarchy that enables it to contrast its members with the immigrants targeted by its party.</p>
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How can migrant organisations affiliated to anti-immigration political parties reconcile their party’s ideology with the representation of immigrants? Based on a website content analysis, this article investigates the representative claims of a migrant group affiliated to the Swiss People’s Party. Comparing them to the discourse of its left-wing counterpart, the findings show that the group sets ideological boundaries between immigrants, establishing a hierarchy that enables it to contrast its members with the immigrants targeted by its party.

Ideological Boundary-Making: Representing Immigrants in an Anti-Immigration Party

Département des sciences de la communication et des médias

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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How can migrant organisations affiliated to anti-immigration political parties reconcile their party’s ideology with the representation of immigrants? Based on...

Ideological Boundary-Making: Representing Immigrants in an Anti-Immigration Party

Publié en ligne: 28 mars 2021

Pages: 157 - 176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0011

Mots clés
Migrant organisations, radical right, representative claims, boundary-making, Switzerland

© 2021 Dina Bader et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Ideological Boundary-Making: Representing Immigrants in an Anti-Immigration Party

Publié en ligne: 28 mars 2021

Pages: 157 - 176

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0011

Mots clésMigrant organisations, radical right, representative claims, boundary-making, Switzerland

© 2021 Dina Bader et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Migrant organisations, radical right, representative claims, boundary-making, Switzerland