ABSTRACT

The 2018 election made it clear the Swedish politics of migration no longer was an outlier in comparative European perspective. In this contribution, we analyse some of the reasons behind this development, which trace back a decade earlier We focus on the troubled relationship the centre-right has had with the issue of immigration and draw attention to two critical junctures in order to explain it. First, the entry of a populist radical party to the national legislature in 2010 meant immigration and integration were reframed as multi-dimensional issues, and, second, the collapse of the centre-right Alliance for Sweden in 2014 led parties with different ideologies to scramble for common ground to be able to co-operate. The move from uni- to multi-dimensional competition, along with the absence of a formal coalition, allowed dormant ideological tensions to emerge and enabled parts of the centre-right to discuss immigration and integration in distinctly socio-cultural terms. The signature solutions of the populist radical right were thereby fast-tracked into the mainstream, and the Swedish party system is likely to experience increased (ideological) turmoil in the future.

摘要

2018 年的选举清楚地表明，瑞典的移民政治在比较欧洲的视角下不再是一个异常值。在这篇文章中，我们分析了这一发展背后的一些原因，这些原因可以追溯到十年前。我们关注中右翼与移民问题的困扰关系，并提请注意两个关键时刻以解释它。首先，2010 年民粹主义激进党进入国家立法机构意味着移民和融合被重新定义为多维问题，其次，2014 年中右翼瑞典联盟的瓦解导致不同意识形态的政党争先恐后为了共同点能够合作。从单维竞争向多维竞争的转变，以及正式联盟的缺失，允许潜伏的意识形态紧张局势出现，并使中右翼的部分人能够以明显的社会文化术语讨论移民和融合。民粹主义激进右翼的标志性解决方案因此迅速进入主流，瑞典政党体系未来可能会经历更多的（意识形态）动荡。