Durante a 20ª conferência anual do IMISCOE, a equipa portuguesa do Mapping Out participou no painel “Reaching Out to Close the Border: Compreender a Mobilização contra a Migração na Europa” organizado por . Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken do parceiro norueguês PRIO. Thais França e João Carvalho, ambos do CIES-Iscte, apresentaram o trabalho “Anti-immigration grassroots in Portugal: the drivers of activism and its success”. A apresentação explorou os motores do ativismo anti-imigração em Portugal, recorrendo a teorias relacionadas com a intensidade dos influxos, a saliência da imigração e a difusão transnacional.
O painel incluiu também as seguintes apresentações:
Between change and continuity: discourses on Jews and antisemitism in Polish newspapers, 1990 – 2020, by Zuzanna Rosłońska (Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo)
The transnationalist nationalists: Anti-immigration actors in Norway, by Katrine Fangen (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo)
Framing immigration as a non-salient issue: Anti-immigration mobilization in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic, by Raffaele Bazurli (Quenn Mary University of London)
Does Anti-Immigration Mobilization Really Matter? Political Adaptation within Mainstream Parties in Norway, by Kristian Berg Harpviken (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Why do far-right political parties take to the streets? How far-right politicians evaluate the benefits and risks of demonstrations as form of protest, by Manés Weisskircher (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo)
João Carvalho and Thais França (from left to right)
Venue: Warsaw University, Poland
Mapping Out team joined the 20th Imiscoe Conference in Warsaw!
During the 20th IMISCOE annual conferece the Mapping Out Portuguese team participated in the panel Reaching Out to Close the Border: Understanding Mobilization against Migration across Europe” organised by . Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken from the Norwegian partner PRIO. Thais França and João Carvalho, both from CIES-Iscte, presented the work “Anti-immigration grassroots in Portugal: the drivers of activism and its success”. The presentation explored the drivers of anti-immigration activism in Portugal by engaging with theories related to the intensity of inflows, the salience of immigration and of transnational diffusion.
The panel included the following presentations also:
Re-making the British border after Brexit? by Aleksandra Lewicki (University of Sussex)
Between change and continuity: discourses on Jews and antisemitism in Polish newspapers, 1990 – 2020, by Zuzanna Rosłońska (Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo)
The transnationalist nationalists: Anti-immigration actors in Norway, by Katrine Fangen (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo)
Framing immigration as a non-salient issue: Anti-immigration mobilization in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic, by Raffaele Bazurli (Quenn Mary University of London)
Does Anti-Immigration Mobilization Really Matter? Political Adaptation within Mainstream Parties in Norway, by Kristian Berg Harpviken (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Why do far-right political parties take to the streets? How far-right politicians evaluate the benefits and risks of demonstrations as form of protest, by Manés Weisskircher (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo)