2012/04/01 by Alberto Spektorowski · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #European Union Policy and Governance #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Political Systems and Governance #Multiculturalism #Immigration #Ethnic group #Sociology #Cultural heritage #Order (exchange) #Political science #Gender studies #Epistemology #Law #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1080/17449626.2011.635688
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This article studies a seeming paradox – the adoption of multi-culturalist strategies and arguments by the neo-fascist European New Right. Why would neo-fascists adopt such a theoretical framework, and why has multiculturalism failed in Europe? In this article, I argue that the European New Right employs a multiculturalism framework, which I define as a recognition/exclusionist one, in order to create a new discourse of ‘legitimate exclusionism’ of non-authentic European immigrants. In short, multiculturalism, by celebrating differences between ethnic and cultural groups, inherently admits that there exist such differences between individuals. This allows neo-fascists to distinguish between themselves and ‘others’, immigrants not sharing their cultural heritage, and to claim the need for protecting such a cultural heritage through exclusion of others. As this article attempts to claim, immigrants will not benefit from multiculturalism, but the right of the radical integralist in its different versions.