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Does political membership and ideology explain party stances on migration? This paper analyses parliamentary debates in Italy, the UK and the European Parliament to assess how the main centre-left, centre-right, Radical Right, and Populist Parties have framed the 2015 refugee crisis.
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This paper adds on the academic debate on the 2015 refugee crisis, showing how the immigration issue can impact on domestic and European party politics, challenging both political identities and competition.
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I believe that immigration is a privileged issue to study party competition, since it cross-cut the traditional divide between economic and social issues and contains simultaneously economic, social, cultural and identity issues. Therefore, I hope this article helps the reader to understand some of the patterns of contemporary political competition frames in Italy and the UK.
Stella Gianfreda
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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This page is a summary of: Politicization of the refugee crisis?: a content analysis of parliamentary debates in Italy, the UK, and the EU, Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, October 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/ipo.2017.20.
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