{"id":3466,"date":"2022-03-18T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2022-05-02T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:16:50","slug":"immigration-and-border-control-as-polarizing-issues-on-the-campaign-trail-intractable-policy-problem-or-symbolic-politics-with-james-hollifield-southern-methodist-university-smu-dallas-nonna-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/2022\/03\/18\/immigration-and-border-control-as-polarizing-issues-on-the-campaign-trail-intractable-policy-problem-or-symbolic-politics-with-james-hollifield-southern-methodist-university-smu-dallas-nonna-m\/","title":{"rendered":"30\/03\/2022 [CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS] IMMIGRATION AND BORDER CONTROL AS POLARIZING ISSUES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: INTRACTABLE POLICY PROBLEM OR SYMBOLIC POLITICS? WITH JAMES HOLLIFIELD, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (SMU), DALLAS ; NONNA MAYER &#038; VIRGINIE GUIRAUDON, SCIENCES PO, CEE, CNRS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Date:&nbsp;30 Mars, 2022 &#8211;&nbsp;17:00&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;19:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZED BY SCIENCES PO, CEE (UMR 8239) &amp; SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sciences Po, Amphith\u00e9\u00e2tre Jean Moulin, 13 rue de l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9, 75007 Paris&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeOw216SCkxhjbl2NIrO4Ji1bkiP4cp8KHn20UppVDG9AWsog\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">Compulsory Registration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immigration and borders control are prominent issues in the 2022 campaigns of the declared candidates of the Right and radical right (V. P\u00e9cresse, M. Le Pen and E. Zemmour) that use their strong stances as ideological markers. Issues linked to migrants\u2019 integration also polarize debates within the Left. The Macron Presidency and Interior ministers have from the start vowed to be \u201cfirm\u201d on immigration, with a law passed on 10 September 2018, the 28th such law since 1980. The government has also implemented very strict borders\u2019 policies, with a continuance of internal Schengen checks at the borders between France, Italy and Spain, or cooperation with the UK in the Calais region to disperse potential migrants\u2019 crossings. The current French presidency of the EU Council of Ministers has pledged to \u201creform Schengen.\u201d How can we assess French policy during the last five years and the role of immigration in election time compared to other countries, in Europe or beyond? Is immigration an \u201cintractable policy problem\u201d or a matter of symbolic politics for incumbents and candidates? Do we overstate the importance of immigration in voters\u2019 decisions?&nbsp;While the invasion of Ukraine and the millions of persons fleeing war has changed some public stances on refugees, does it affect voters&rsquo; opinions, priorities and partisan positions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Speakers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>James Hollifield,<\/strong>&nbsp;Ora Nixon Arnold Professor in International Political Economy and Director of the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas and Visiting Professor at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nonna Mayer<\/strong>, CNRS Research Director Emerita at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) of Sciences Po, specialist in electoral sociology and in particular the extreme right, racism and anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Chair<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Virginie Guiraudon,<\/strong>&nbsp;CNRS Research Director at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) of Sciences Po, Specialist in migration and European policies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Collective Discussion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeOw216SCkxhjbl2NIrO4Ji1bkiP4cp8KHn20UppVDG9AWsog\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Compulsory Registration&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information: contact.cee@sciencespo.fr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:&nbsp;30 Mars, 2022 &#8211;&nbsp;17:00&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;19:00 CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZED BY SCIENCES PO, CEE (UMR 8239) &amp; SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS Sciences Po, Amphith\u00e9\u00e2tre Jean Moulin, 13 rue de l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9, 75007 Paris&nbsp; Compulsory Registration Immigration and borders control are prominent issues in the 2022 campaigns of the declared candidates of the Right and radical right (V. P\u00e9cresse, M. Le Pen and E. Zemmour) that use their strong stances as ideological markers. Issues linked to migrants\u2019 integration also polarize debates within the Left. The Macron Presidency and Interior ministers have from the start vowed to be \u201cfirm\u201d on immigration, with a law passed on 10<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/migration-diversite\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}