Nativism (politics)
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Nativism is a political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native-born or indigenous people over those of immigrants, including opposition to immigration.
Cartoon from Puck, August 9, 1899, by J. S. Pughe. Angry Uncle Sam sees hyphenated voters (including an Irish-American, a German-American, a French-American, an Italian-American, and a Hungarian-American) and demands, "Why should I let these freaks cast whole votes when they are only half Americans?"
Guardians of Liberty, an anti-Catholic caricature by the Ku Klux Klan-affiliate Alma White (1943), founder and bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church
Three Klansmen talking to PI reporter Robert Berman in Seattle, Washington (circa 1923). Photograph currently preserved by the Museum of History & Industry.
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Opposition to immigration
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Opposition to immigration is a political position that seeks to restrict or ban legal and illegal immigration. In the modern sense, immigration refers to the entry of people from one state or territor
Nativism (politics)
…Nativism is a political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native-born or indigenous people over those of immigrants, including opposition to immigration. According to Cas Mudde, a University of Georgia professor, nativism is a largely American notion that is rarely debated in Western Europe or Canada…
Pauline Hanson said in her maiden speech in 1996 that Australia "was in danger of being swamped by Asians"
A "March for Australia" rally against mass immigration in Hobart, August 2025
Czech politician and leader of the right-wing populist party SPD, Tomio Okamura, speaks at an anti-immigration rally in Prague, 17 October 2015
A banner advocating "remigration" during an anti-immigration protest in Calais, France, in 2015