Securitisation of Migration and Far Right Populist Othering in Scandinavian Countries

Almost three decades after Klaus von Beyme argued that ‘there is virtually no comparative literature on the topic’ (1988: 14) far-right parties have started drawing considerable attention from scholars. From the mid-1980s onwards, Europe has faced a new phenomenon of radicalisation, which from its first occurrence was difficult to define. Since the first appearance of contemporary far-right parties, various labels, such as ‘extreme right’ (Carter 2005; Ignazi 1996; Hainsworth 2000), ‘right-wing populism’ (Decker 2004), ‘ethno-nationalism’ (Rydgren 2005), ‘anti-immigrant’ (Fennema 1997), ‘radical right’ (Minkenberg 1998; Kitschelt and McGann 1995) and ‘far right’ (Marcus 2000) have been used to describe and classify this new political family. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.