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Immigration has become one of the most pressing political issues of the modern day, and public opinion polls indicate that it has been of public concern for some time. This book analyses the impact of immigration on perceptions of national political systems in Europe and contends that public concern about immigration is undermining trust in national political institutions and elites, as well as satisfaction with the way democracy is working. This book contends that immigration presents more substantial challenges to some national identity constructions, and that while concern about immigration appears to have been fairly high since the 1960s, it is only since 1997 that such concern has come to translate into negative perceptions of the British political system and this trend has continued into the post-Labour era.

EUROPE--EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION --- GREAT BRITAIN--EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION