Immigration Policy and the SVP: Resisting the EU and Fighting Switzerland’s So-Called Islamisation

Author(s) : Anna McKeever

Source : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41761-1_4

Abstract:

“Chapter 4 sheds light on the causes behind SVP’s immigration policy stance since 2003, when the party became a serious contender in Swiss politics. It investigates the mechanisms that enabled the SVP to change Swiss immigration policy in a more restrictive direction. The chapter also points out that, despite not being a member of the EU, Switzerland has been facing adaptational pressures from Europeanisation, demonstrating how anxieties related to Europeanisation led to the acceptance of the Initiative Against Mass Migration in 2014, which has endangered the cooperation between Switzerland and the EU. It also explains integration policy change through a lens of cultural anxieties.”