It ap- pears in the moment of the “crisis of the welfare state”, economic recession and un- employment, in the late 1970s (Faist 1994, 53-54). [...] Anti-migration in Serbia: the influence of European New Right and Neo-Eurasianism Serbian far-right populist movements which use anti-migrant absorbed these three principles of exclusion because of the strong influence of European far-right and Russian far-right. [...] The need for preservation of national and cultural identity, which is at the heart of Generation Identity’s political rhetoric, is the embodiment of the principle of cultural fundamentalism. [...] Scholars noted that “to right-wing populist parties, movements and politicians the influx of ref- ugees and asylum-seekers from Muslim countries is a threat to Christian European civilisation, not dissimilar to the Arab (in the seventh and eight centuries) and the Ot- toman (in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) invasions” (Forlenza 2018, 133). [...] However, the creation of anti-migration platform is a strategy of constructing the common enemy from outside of the Europe (Laruelle 2010, 29), and a question of interest “of all the far right actor, regardless of their dif- ferences in relation to certain internal or external political issues”, which has a po- tential to unite actors on national and cross-national level (LaæetiÊ 2018, 71).
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