The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria

In many European countries the extreme right have refined their electoral programs under the rubric of nationalist-populist slogans and have adopted subtle forms of racism. The move away from overt neo-fascist discourse has allowed these parties to expand their electoral support as populist nationalist parties. Paradoxically, this has led to an increase in racist and anti-Semitic discourse. In this on-site analysis, Michal Krzyzanowski and Ruth Wodak describe a confluence of racism and xenophobia, and show how that union creates a new kind of racism.

Michal Krzyzanowski is research fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Language at Lancaster University (UK) Ruth Wodak is distinguished professor and chair of discourse studies at Lancaster University