TY - CHAP
T1 - The party politics of migration
AU - Odmalm, Pontus
N1 - Pontus Odmalm is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Particular research interests include party politics of migration (broadly understood) and the changing nature of political conflict in comparative perspective. He has published extensively on these topics, including The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right (Routledge, 2017; co-edited with Eve Hepburn) and The Party Politics of the EU and Immigration (Palgrave, 2014).
PY - 2018/7/9
Y1 - 2018/7/9
N2 - This chapter examines an emerging sub-field in political science, namely, the party politics of migration. It begins by sketching out potential reasons for why parties are often downplayed in European and North American studies focusing on immigration and integration polices. Thereby one can identify some common denominators. One the one hand, most analyses tend to examine state level politics of migration, that is, the output-side. On the other, when parties are credited with playing a role, then the populist radical right is typically the main focal point. Both bodies of literature also tend to place greater emphasis on structural perspectives, often at the expense of more agency-based explanations. This helps to explain the relatively smaller interest (mainstream) parties receive in studies which attempt to merge ‘parties and elections’ scholarship with ‘migration studies’. However, one noticeable difference is the somewhat greater role parties play in the European literature compared to that of North America. Finally, the chapter raises some suggestions for future research and asks scholars to consider broader party system dynamics, especially the interactions between centre-left and centre-right parties.
AB - This chapter examines an emerging sub-field in political science, namely, the party politics of migration. It begins by sketching out potential reasons for why parties are often downplayed in European and North American studies focusing on immigration and integration polices. Thereby one can identify some common denominators. One the one hand, most analyses tend to examine state level politics of migration, that is, the output-side. On the other, when parties are credited with playing a role, then the populist radical right is typically the main focal point. Both bodies of literature also tend to place greater emphasis on structural perspectives, often at the expense of more agency-based explanations. This helps to explain the relatively smaller interest (mainstream) parties receive in studies which attempt to merge ‘parties and elections’ scholarship with ‘migration studies’. However, one noticeable difference is the somewhat greater role parties play in the European literature compared to that of North America. Finally, the chapter raises some suggestions for future research and asks scholars to consider broader party system dynamics, especially the interactions between centre-left and centre-right parties.
KW - migration
KW - mainstream parties
KW - populist radical right
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Politics-of-Migration-in-Europe/Weinar-Bonjour-Zhyznomirska/p/book/9781138201187
U2 - 10.4324/9781315512853-12
DO - 10.4324/9781315512853-12
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781138201187
T3 - Routledge International Handbooks
BT - The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe
A2 - Weinar, Agnieszka
A2 - Bonjour, Saskia
A2 - Zhyznomirska, Lyubov
PB - Routledge
ER -