ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates when and whether actors are associated with certain dimensions of, and positions on, immigration. It focuses on actors electoral strategies, which are interpreted in terms of the preferences of the coalitions running for office, contextual circumstances and party-system configuration. The chapter analysis the salience of the immigration issue for each electoral actor across the three case studies and over time. This analysis paves the way for the investigation of the attention given by each type of actor to the different dimensions of the issue, over time and across the three electoral contexts. The chapter examines the partisan issue positions over the three dimensions of migration. It discusses the broader implications of electoral campaigning and immigration politics. The success of blatantly anti-immigration actors such as Golden Dawn in Greece and Pegida in Germany, in this sense, comes as no surprise in contexts where migration is increasingly securitized in public and media discourse, at all levels of governance.
