Political scientist: Migration doesn’t fuel far-right rise

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Political scientist Nathalie Tocci says the issue of migration alone doesn’t fuel far-right support, but it does when it falls into the same timeframe of an economic crisis.

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00:00And there's very obviously a nexus between the economy and migration.

00:06So migration itself, actually, migration flows in Europe, go up and down, up and down.

00:12And there isn't actually a correlation between the level of the flow and the support for the far right.

00:18What there is a connection with is the economic situation, the way in which that interlocks with the perception of migration.

00:27And that nexus basically is what leads to a support for the far right.

00:33So this is actually quite a heterogeneous story.

00:36Let's take one example for Spain.

00:39Spain is actually a country which has very high levels of migration, but the economy is doing rather well.

00:45This explains why actually the far right in Spain is not doing particularly well.

00:51So I think we really need to look at this data, as I said, both as it evolves over time, but also as it plays out in different countries.

01:00The final thing that I wanted to say is that this is not just a European story.

01:04It's not just a European story.

01:06It's not just a story in the United States, but it's also a story in countries that are at very different stages of their development.

01:14But of course it will be something that says,

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