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Affective (re)orientations in online discussions on the threat of violence posed by migrants
2020
Online discussions are rife with fear-evoking images and meaning making that highlight a perceived threat to the security of European nations and their inhabitants posed by migrants’ violence in the wake of increased immigration. This paper examines the role of emotions in shaping anti-immigration views as a response to the threat of violence attached to migrants in online conversations. Using a dataset of Finnish online discussion threads from 2015 to 2017 that were prompted by extensive media attention paid to various cases of violent crime in which migrants were suspects, we particularly analyse the affective dynamics of interpellation processes wherein discussants are invited to adopt a…
Techno-cultural opportunities: the anti-immigration movement in the Finnish mediascape
2015
Horsti's article analyses how transformations in the media environment shaped the political success of the anti-immigration movement in Finland from 2003 to 2013. The qualitative textual analysis of blogs and mainstream media debates that relate to racism and the national populist Finns Party demonstrates how changes in the mediascape in general and in new media technology in particular have provided opportunities for the emerging anti-immigration movement. These changes facilitated the earlier development of the Finns Party but the fragmentation of online space later hindered the internal coherence of the movement and its integration into the populist party political family. In order to re…
Le discours médiatique comme révélateur d'une politisation des enjeux migratoires en Espagne
2021
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Évolution du discours anti-immigration des populistes de droite radicale : le cas du Parti des Finlandais
2021
Cet article vise à analyser, à travers les différents programmes électoraux des Perussuomalaiset, comment se forme la rhétorique anti-immigration et comment elle a évolué des années 1990 jusqu’aux élections parlementaires de 2019. Une attention particulière sera donnée à l’évolution de ces deux thèmes après la crise des réfugiés de 2015 et la scission du parti de juin 2017, évènements ayant contribué à transformer le parti de façon plus radicale sur ces questions, notamment lors de la campagne pour les élections parlementaires d’avril 2019. This article aims to analyse anti-immigration discourse in the electoral and political programmes of the Finns Party from the 1990’s until the parliamen…