Co-opting the immigration issue within the French right

French Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-30

  Hester, Robert James ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigration; National Front; Union for a Popular Movement; Vote seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650266421     PISSN: 14763419     EISSN: 14763427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/fp.2009.4     Document Type: Article

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