What are status anxiety-threat and negative partisanship

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Assignment:

True/False

1. According to Alba and Foner, religion is more of a problem in Europe than it is in the United Statesin terms of its impact on immigrant integration. T or F? Why/Why not?

2. Right-wing anti-immigrant populism can just be called populism because the two concepts are identical, according to Rydgren. T or F? Explain?

Answer the following questions:

1. What do Alba and Nee (and Waters and Jimenez) mean by assimilation? How is that different from what they say people used to mean by assimilation? How well are immigrants and their children "assimilating" in the United States? How do we measure that?

2. What are the similarities between European examples of right-wing populism (Wilders, Le Pen) and Trump?

3. Describe the two main theories about why the populist radical right has been so successful throughout the West. How do those theories and socio-economic factors interact to cause the rise of right-wing populism in recent decades? (See Berman, Rodrik, Inglehart, and Norris)

4. Provide some of the main takeaways from the 2020 election. What kinds of rightwing nationalist populist appeals/rhetoric did Trump utilize during the campaign? Which demographic groups and what types of geographic areas did Trump/Biden appeal to? Which demographic groups and areas accounted for Biden's win? (Hint: Pew Research report on Biden's 2020 victory and the New York Times map of the results of the 2020 election).

5. What are status anxiety/threat and negative partisanship? What do they have to do with Trump?

6. What are the two sides in the debate on the economic benefits and costs of so-called low-skilled migration? (See Lowenstein)

7. Who are Georgia Meloni and Geert Wilders? What do they believe? What have they managed to do?

8. What is the headscarf affair in France according to your readings? (Hint: The Economist)

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