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New racism is an influential term coined in 1981 by scholar Martin Barker, in the context of the ideologies supporting Margaret Thatcher rise in the UK, to refer to racist public discourse depicting immigrants as a threat.

Late 2000s resurgence

From 2008, in part following the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession, racisms saw a significant increase all over Europe, with xenophobic political movements gaining more and more support. In the European parliament, for the first time an international grouping of racist and neo-fascists parties was formed in January 2007. The alledgedly racist parties part of this trend are National Front (France), Party for Freedom (Netherlands), Lega Nord (Italy), Vlaams Belang (Belgium), True Finns (Finland).

See also

• Extracomunitari
• 2005 civil unrest in France

Notes

1. Chin (2009) pp.13, 92, 178-9, 241
2. Rosenthal, Elisabeth (2008) Italy cracks down on immigrants in The New York Times, May 15, 2008 quote:

   The raids reflected a growing anti-immigrant sentiment among electorates and governing rightist parties in European countries from Italy to France and the Netherlands - a sentiment that has in part grown out of the Continent's economic stagnation.

3. Pisanò, Alessio (2011) Unione europea, la costante crescita dei partiti estremisti e xenofobi, in Il Fatto Quotidiano, April 24 2011 quote:

   Con l’exploit di voti incassati dal partito xenofobo e populista dei “True Finns” (Veri Finlandesi) alle elezioni nazionali di Helsinki, si aggiunge un altro tassello al dilagare dell’estremismo di destra in Europa. Quello finlandese è solo l’ultimo soffio di un vento di estremismo che negli ultimi anni sta lambendo la maggior parte dei 27 Paesi Ue. Dal nazionalista Vlaams Belang (Interesse Fiammingo) e dalla più moderata ma pur sempre separatista NVA in Belgio all’anti islamico Partij voor de Vrijheid (Pvv) di Geert Wilders in Olanda, passando dal Fronte National (Fn) di Marine Le Pen, figlia d’arte di Jean-Marie, in costante ascesa in Francia, alla Lega Nord in Italia.

4. France experiencing 'resurgence of racism’, in The Telegraph, 11 Aug 2010
5. Traynor, Ian (2007) Xenophobia destroys EU's ultra-rightwing MEP group, in The Guardian, 15 November 2007

References

• Chin, Rita C-K (2009). After the Nazi racial state: difference and democracy in Germany and Europe. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

• Racism
• Hate speech
• Discrimination
• Philosophical arguments