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When migrants become ‘the people’ : unpacking homeland populism

Jakobson, Mari Liis ; Umpierrez de Reguero, Sebastián and Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü LU orcid (2023) In Contemporary Politics 29(3). p.277-297
Abstract
The emerging debate on transnational populism has thus far mainly focused on cases, which have remained relatively inconsequential due to the weak institutionalisation of the political transnationalism arena. By bringing in a better-structured arena of migrant transnationalism, this paper introduces populist political parties mobilising transnational migrants to the debate and explores the resulting phenomenon of homeland populism. The paper investigates three populist parties that operate transnationally–Ecuadorian APAIS in Spain, Turkish AKP in Germany and Estonian EKRE in Finland. The analysis demonstrates that the phenomenon of homeland populism shares several distinct features despite the ideological, geographic, cultural and... (More)
The emerging debate on transnational populism has thus far mainly focused on cases, which have remained relatively inconsequential due to the weak institutionalisation of the political transnationalism arena. By bringing in a better-structured arena of migrant transnationalism, this paper introduces populist political parties mobilising transnational migrants to the debate and explores the resulting phenomenon of homeland populism. The paper investigates three populist parties that operate transnationally–Ecuadorian APAIS in Spain, Turkish AKP in Germany and Estonian EKRE in Finland. The analysis demonstrates that the phenomenon of homeland populism shares several distinct features despite the ideological, geographic, cultural and migratory differences between the three cases. The cases also sport differences: while the construction of ‘the people’ depends on migratory context, the construction of ‘the antagonist’ is more related to the ideational variations of populism. The study also suggests that the key target group of homeland populism are economic migrants.
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electoral campaigns, external voting, homeland politics, migrant transnationalism, Populism
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Contemporary Politics
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29
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21 pages
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Routledge
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1356-9775
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10.1080/13569775.2022.2140791
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Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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  author       = {{Jakobson, Mari Liis and Umpierrez de Reguero, Sebastián and Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü}},
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  title        = {{When migrants become ‘the people’ : unpacking homeland populism}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2022.2140791}},
  doi          = {{10.1080/13569775.2022.2140791}},
  volume       = {{29}},
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