{"id":800,"date":"2019-03-27T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics\/?p=800"},"modified":"2019-03-27T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:52:10","slug":"trumps-comments-on-european-immigration-mirror-white-nationalist-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/trumps-comments-on-european-immigration-mirror-white-nationalist-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s comments on European immigration mirror white nationalist rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Abrajano and Hajnal find that immigration affects the partisanship of white Americans, and suggest that white backlash probably played a role in the \u201cmassive white Democratic defection\u201d that has happened in the last few decades. They look at several factors that might have led to this backlash, and also touch upon how nativism has been influenced by immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This article looks at Trump&#8217;s implicit advocacy for nativism and white nationalism. It focuses particularly on Trump\u2019s comments on immigration in Europe: he advocates that Europe should not continue taking a large number of immigrants\/refugees. Trump\u2019s use of language in addressing this issue (i.e. bringing up ideas of Europe\u2019s \u201cculture\u201d) is particularly interesting, as it is similar to white nationalist and nativist rhetoric.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">How do you think international demographic trends have influenced politics in the United States? Do you think that it has heightened white backlash?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Abrajano and Hajnal focus extensively on the size of the immigrant population, the \u201cthreat narrative,\u201d and the divisions between the two parties. Looking at the article, how do you think the idea of a \u201cwhite culture\u201d (one of the supposed features of \u201cwhite nationalism\u201d) arose from these three factors?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">How do you think portraying the United States\/Europe as having \u201cWestern civilization\u201d and a certain \u201cculture\u201d influences politics and policymaking?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2018\/07\/13\/trumps-comments-on-european-immigration-mirror-white-nationalist-rhetoric\/?utm_term=.753dc16912a3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abrajano and Hajnal find that immigration affects the partisanship of white Americans, and suggest that white backlash probably played a role in the \u201cmassive white Democratic defection\u201d that has happened in the last few decades. They look at several factors that might have led to this backlash, and also touch upon how nativism has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-3b","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}