Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Francesca Scrinzi is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK. In 2018-2021, she was British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (‘Gender and the populist radical right in Europe’. In 2012-2014, she was ERC Starting Grant holder ('Gendering Activism in populist Radical Right Parties: A Comparative Study of Women’s and Men’s Participation in The Northern League (Italy) and The National Front (France)'). In 2015-2018, she was Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (Migration, religion and work in comparative perspective. Evangelical ‘ethnic churches’ in Southern Europe). She has carried out ethnographic and comparative research on gendered migration and migrant care workers. Among her publications: ‘Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega nord, West European politics, 40(4), 2017.
An increasing number of European women are viewing radical-Right parties as representing their interests, despite...