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Late 2000s resurgence
The resurgence of racism in Europe 2008-2011, is a trend that sees a significant increase in racist anti-immigrant sentiments all over the Europena countries, and a large increase in the electoral support to anti-immigrant political parties. The trend is in part linked to the ongoing 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.
Xenophobic sentiment has reemerged in European countries starting from the 1980s, when the increase in global inequalities between poor and rich countries led to significant immigration flows, which were exploited by conservative political leaders as Margaret Thatcher and Bettino Craxi.
In January 2007, for the first time in the European parliament an international grouping of racist and neo-fascists parties was formed. The alledgedly racist parties that have seen an increased support are National Front (France), Party for Freedom (Netherlands), Lega Nord (Italy), the British National Party, Vlaams Belang (Belgium), Freedom Party of Austria and Alliance for the Future of Austria, the Sweden Democrats, and True Finns (Finland). Similar parties and movements have gained support in Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia.
See also
Notes
- Chin (2009) pp.13, 92, 178-9, 241
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mayer, Catherine (2009) THE MARCH TO THE FAR RIGHT (IN THE EU HAS BEGUN), in Liberty news online, 07-31-2009
- ^ Castle, Stephen Swedish Anti-Immigration Party Claims Seats, in nytimes global edition, September 19, 2010
- Chin (2009) pp.13, 92, 178-9, 241
- Ginsborg (2003) pp.62, 176
- Guild and Minderhoud (2006) p.173
- Traynor, Ian (2007) Xenophobia destroys EU's ultra-rightwing MEP group, in The Guardian, 15 November 2007
- France experiencing 'resurgence of racism’, in The Telegraph, 11 Aug 2010
- Factbox: Anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party, in reuters.com, Sep 19, 2010
References
- Chin, Rita C-K (2009). After the Nazi racial state: difference and democracy in Germany and Europe.
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