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Immigration, Insecurity and the French Far Right

Fear of crime has been associated with immigration in French public opinion for at least the past twenty years. Conventional political wisdom would point to the central role played by France's extreme right party, the Front National (FN), in successfully linking the two issues and maintaining their centrality in national political debates. Indeed, for most of this period, other political parties found themselves caught waffling between two poles; appearing before a preoccupied public to be too soft on immigration and insecurity, leaving themselves vulnerable to FN attacks of laxism or worse, and contributing themselves to the FN's xenophobic discourse by...