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Title: The populist far-right and the intersection of anti-immigration and antifeminist agendas: the Portuguese case
Authors: Santos, Rita
Roque, Sílvia 
Keywords: Gender ideology; Anti-immigration; Femonationalism; Far-right; Populism
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: Ghent University
Project: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029997 - PTDC/CPO-CPO/29997/2017 
Serial title, monograph or event: DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Place of publication or event: Ghent
Abstract: This article aims to discuss the intersections of the anti-feminist and anti-immigration agendas in the Portuguese far-right through critical discourse analysis of the PNR and Chega’s positions. These political actors convey nationalist, racist and anti-multiculturalist messages at the same time that they show their hostility towards gender equality policies, using racial, cisgender and heteronormative categories as criteria to define whose citizens are worthy of defense/protection. Recently, they have also co-opted gender equality agendas to justify anti-immigration positions, specifically opposing the hosting of refugees, depicted as a potential threat to the imagined Portuguese and European white and Christian community. The latter representation, apparently disruptive of their own conservative ideology based on protecting the traditional family/nation, is thus re-oriented in order to simultaneously attack “gender ideology”. The article shows how the mobilization of gendered and racialized tropes in the construction of Europe and Portugal as at risk from ‘external’ forces re-inscribes racist and xenhophobic securitarian discourses in the political sphere.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/95795
ISSN: 2593-0281
2593-0273
DOI: 10.21825/digest.v8i1.16958
Rights: openAccess
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