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The Role of Disseminating Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric by Far-Right Parties on White Voters’ Behavior

Nayeli Rodriguez

Hunter College

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My Question:

How does the spread of anti-immigration sentiments by far-right parties influence White voting behavior?

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How I Narrowed the Topic

  • Preliminary WoS search- 673 initial results
  • Narrow down topic
  • Final WoS search- 30 articles
    • 3 from citation searching
  • Covidence
    • Inclusion and Exclusion

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Key Findings:

  1. White identity salience

2) Scapegoating

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3) Political enthymeme

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What this means…

  • Understanding the complexity of the connection between whiteness, voting, and anti-immigration sentiments made by far-right parties/politicians demonstrates the mainstreaming of far-right rhetoric.
  • The victimization of white identity can to white voters to vote for far-right parties, even if they typically don’t.
  • There is a need to create an effective campaign during the election season to combat both overt and covert enthymeme.

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THANK YOU!

[Nayeli.Rodriguez57@myhunter.cuny.edu]