Jan 2020 – Dec 2023
Immigration is seen as a major concern by many Europeans. Simultaneously, opposition to immigration - across the political spectrum - is the issue which most forcefully mobilizes politically. It is this Mobilization Against Migration (MAM) that gives our project its name.
It is a paradox that anti-immigration movements, whose key concern is opposing mobility across borders and who advocate isolationism, nationalism and cultural traditionalism, often work transnationally, with joint events, strategies and campaigns across borders and in multilateral forums.
MAM studies contemporary European anti-immigration movements, by focusing on
A comprehensive analytical state-of-the-art framing will be followed by a pilot study to trace transnational outcomes in Europe, five comprehensive studies of most different cases (Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal and the UK), and a major synthesizing comparison.
A Methodology Lab, including leading scholars with various specialties, will be engaged to inform the ambitious multi-methods design, with process-tracing as the key methodology aiming for theory development.
The main sources of data are surveys, internet (both to map interaction and gather documents), and interviews. The multidisciplinary team of five draws from globally leading research environments on social movements, radicalization, conflict and migration.
MAM will engage with users in a Practitioners Exchange, from the initial design phase to the ultimate dissemination of findings. Through its platforms for engaging both scholars and users, research communication is an integral part of the project from day one, including an integrated outreach strategy on multiple platforms to reach all relevant audiences.
A core ambition of the project is to inspire new projects on transnational anti-immigration mobilization, while also drawing up and generating interest in a new agenda on the contentious governance of migration.
Funder: This project is funded by the Research Council of Norway under the VAM Programme.
Call for Papers for an international symposium & workshop, 9-10 November 2023. PRIO is co-hosting this event.
In an extensive book review published in the journal YOUNG, Katrine Fangen offers a nuanced assessment of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, by Cynthia Miller-Idriss (Princeton University Press, 2020).
Katrine Fangen, Professor at the University of Oslo and member of the PRIO project 'Reaching Out to Close the Border: The Transnationalization of Anti-Immigration Movements in Europe (MAM)' was recently interviewed in framtida.no on the role of female leaders in European right-wing movements (in Norwegian), arguing that it can be a strategic choice to put women in front of the movement both to soften the message and to appeal more to female voters.
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Book Chapter in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
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Book Chapter in Rasisme : Fenomenet, forskningen, erfaringene
Book Chapter in Imagining Europe. Transnational Contestation and Civic Populism
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