Ideological Boundary-Making: Representing Immigrants in an Anti-Immigration Party

Dina Bader; Alexandra Feddersen

doi:10.2478/sjs-2021-0011

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Ideological Boundary-Making: Representing Immigrants in an Anti-Immigration Party

Swiss Journal of Sociology

Volume 47 (2021): Issue 1 (March 2021)

By: Dina Bader and Alexandra Feddersen

Open Access

|Mar 2021

Abstract

How can migrant organisations affiliated to anti-immigration political parties reconcile their party’s ideology with the representation of immigrants? Based on a website content analysis, this article investigates the representative claims of a migrant group affiliated to the Swiss People’s Party. Comparing them to the discourse of its left-wing counterpart, the findings show that the group sets ideological boundaries between immigrants, establishing a hierarchy that enables it to contrast its members with the immigrants targeted by its party.

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