Cathrine Thorleifsson is a Researcher at the Centre for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo, specializing in anthropological approaches to the study of nationalism, migration, borders and xenophobia. Her monograph, Nationalist responses to the crisis in Europe: old and new hatreds, appears in Routledge’s 2018 Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Do you agree?” Orbán’s dangerous waltz with the radical right
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe's thriving xenophobia
The radical right has already moved from the margins to the front stage of national politics. Europe's future...