This article analyzes through qualitative content analysis what role the populist radical right parties have had in Scandinavian immigration debate in the press from 1970 to 2016. The press may highlight other dimensions of these parties’ relationship with the immigration issue than party programs and statements. I identify six distinct roles the parties have performed in the debate: the radical traditionalist, the deviant, the extremist, the powerful (against the little guy), the persecuted, and the policy innovator. Showing that the populist radical right parties are not just exchanging the same set of familiar arguments with their political opponents over and over again, this analysis adds to our understanding of how these parties debate immigration and the kinds of criticism they draw, and it shows that the immigration issue can actually lead to highly unfavorable media coverage that goes beyond their policy radicalism, which I suggest could hurt their electoral prospects.

中文翻译：

---

1970–2016年斯堪的纳维亚移民新闻辩论中反移民政党的六大作用

本文通过定性内容分析，分析了民粹主义激进右翼政党在1970年至2016年的新闻界对斯堪的纳维亚移民辩论中所起的作用。除了党的纲领和声明外，新闻界还可能强调这些政党与移民问题的关系的其他方面。我确定了政党在辩论中所扮演的六个不同角色：激进的传统主义者，反常者，极端主义者，强大的（反对小家伙），迫害者和政策创新者。这种分析表明，民粹主义激进右翼政党不只是一次又一次地与其政治对手交换同一组熟悉的论点，这一分析使我们对这些政党如何辩论移民以及他们受到的批评有更多的了解，