20.500.12556/RUL-181659 Migration as democratic boundary-making far-right normalization in Europe Over the past decade, far-right parties have moved from the political margins into the mainstream of several European democracies. This article examines how migration functions not primarily as a demographic driver of electoral change, but as a discursive resource through which democratic boundaries are redefined. Drawing on a qualitative comparative analysis of political speeches, party manifestos, and public debates in selected European countries between 2014 and 2022, the study investigates how migration is constructed as a threat to welfare systems, national cohesion, and liberal-democratic order. The analysis integrates three complementary frameworks of ethno-pluralism, welfare chauvinism, and civic nationalism to demonstrate how exclusion is legitimized through moralized appeals to culture, fairness, and liberal values. Rather than rejecting democracy outright, far-right actors reinterpret concepts such as citizenship, solidarity, and equality in conditional and culturally bounded terms. Migration thus operates as a symbolic condensation of broader anxieties related to globalization, economic insecurity, and political distrust. The findings show how democratic language itself can normalize exclusionary interpretations of membership, contributing to gradual forms of democratic erosion across Europe. far-right politics migration democratic boundary-making democratic erosion welfare chauvinism civic nationalism Europe evropska politika politične stranke desnica migracije demokracija oblikovanje meja socialni šovinizem državljanski nacionalizem Evropa true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-04-10 15:28:54 2026-04-10 15:29:02 2026-04-13 04:41:59 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 1-21 iss. 4, 243 Vol. 14 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-04-09 32 2076-0760 10.3390/socsci15040243 274888963 RAZ_Mandelc_Damjan_2026.pdf RAZ_Mandelc_Damjan_2026.pdf 1 A9CC663E275E46F41BE264C0B7C6A1ED ca92e18116f69bdb6d83689d9ecc04f8ce728e191c177ca3eb21fb55b01c1928 46c3ef6d-34e1-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232316 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/15/4/243 1 081b7413-34e1-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=232315 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0