The Making of the Licitness of Right-Wing Rhetoric: A Case Study of Digital Media in the Netherlands

Clyde Anieldath Missier*

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Abstract

In the Netherlands, the challenges of the multicultural society are high on the political agenda. At present 24.4% of the Dutch population has an immigration background of which 13.9% has a non-western migration background and almost 50% of all the people with a migration background are second-generation migrants born in the Netherlands. However, today’s Dutch multicultural society is associated with a complex range of challenges linked with cultural and religious diversity. This article investigates how news media in the Netherlands facilitated the making of the licitness of xenophobic rhetoric of the two main Dutch populist right-wing parties Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV) and Forum voor Democratie (FvD) during the Provincial Elections in March 2019. I conclude that these rising political extremist movements dominate the immigration debate and are accountable for the making of the licit social resentment against particularly non-western immigrants.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-14
Number of pages14
JournalSage Open
Volume12
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Work on this article was made possible by contributing, as an external PhD candidate, to Rik Peels‘ project EXTREME (Extreme Beliefs: The Epistemology and Ethics of Fundamentalism), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union‘s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 851613) and from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Work on this article was made possible by contributing, as an external PhD candidate, to Rik Peels‘ project EXTREME (Extreme Beliefs: The Epistemology and Ethics of Fundamentalism), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union‘s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 851613) and from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Keywords

  • communication
  • communication studies
  • digital media
  • humanities
  • mass communication
  • media & society
  • political communication
  • religion
  • rhetoric
  • right wing
  • social sciences
  • The Netherlands

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