What is it about?
We examine how the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) talks about immigration. Looking at the electoral programmes between 1994 and 2019, we can identify a shift to more negative views on immigration. We argue that this shift after 2017 is related to the restructuring of the ÖVP into a leadership party.
Featured Image
Photo by Sorasak on Unsplash
Why is it important?
Radical right parties and extremist movements have received much attention, but to better understand how political parties talk about migration, we also need to consider mainstream parties.
Perspectives
With the right data and research question, straightforward descriptions can be surprisingly powerful to better understand changed in party politics and how politicians talk about immigration.
Didier Ruedin
Universite de Neuchatel
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The Austrian People’s Party: an anti-immigrant right party?, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, February 2021, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1853904.
You can read the full text:
Resources
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
