Anti-immigrant Actors – Transnational, Insular Nationalists, or rather Transborder Nationalists?

By means of a careful examination of the self-reported influences and connections of a variety of anti-immigrant actors in Norway, this paper analyses the extent to which they are transnational or rather insular. Further, the paper analyses the possible outcomes of anti-immigrants’ activism. The paper is based on semi-structured interviews with anti-immigrant actors in Norway, but is part of an international project examining such actors in five different European countries. Theoretically, the paper utilizes different strands of social movement theory, in a combination with theorizations of transborder forms of nationhood and nationalism (inspired by Rogers Brubaker, Joppke and Glick-Schiller). In particular, the paper will analyze the extent to which the anti-immigrant actors’ ideas can be seen as part of global diffusion of ideas with a local rearticulation.