The Immigration and Integration Debate in the Netherlands: Discursive and Programmatic Reactions to the Rise of Anti-Immigration Parties

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 119-136

  van Heerden, Sjoerdje ^a   de Lange, Sarah L ^a   van der Brug, Wouter ^a   Fennema, Meindert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti immigration Parties; Left Right Divide; Party Competition; Party Manifestos; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL SYSTEM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; IMMIGRATION; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL INTEGRATION;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84889102800     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: 14699451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.830881     Document Type: Article

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