The Legitimization Process of the French National Front and its Migration Policies
The Legitimization Process of the French National Front and its Migration Policies

Author(s): Murat Aktaş
Subject(s): Politics, Political history, Government/Political systems, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Özgür Yayın Dağıtım Ltd. Şti.
Keywords: migration; legitimization process; migration policies; French National Front;
Summary/Abstract: In Europe, especially in the last three decades, we have witnessed the rise of far right and populist political parties and movements, which spread to many European Union countries as a disease. France is one of these countries. The French National Front (Front National-FN) is one of the first far right political parties founded after the World War II in Western Europe and constituted a role model and the leading example for most contemporary extreme right movements and political parties in Europe (Rydgren, 2003:45-68). Many parties have adopted the discourses and slogans of the National Front (Mudde, 2012: 4). Therefore, it has an important impact on the contemporary European politics.

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