Party for Freedom and the Immigration Issue in the Netherlands

This thesis aims to analyze the current vision of the Party for Freedom (PVV) on immigration and its approach to immigrants, with an emphasis on Immigration plan that the party has in its program as one of the most important topics. The purpose of this work is to determine if the negative attitude of PVV against immigration is not just rhetorical matter, but whether this attitude is even used in active political manifestations. Tested hypothesis in this paper is, that in fact this party is not radical in this area, and it is only rhetorical fallacy to expand its electoral base to obtain seats in parliament. Here, in parliament, PVV wants to pursue its goals especially in the area of economy, not in immigration. The final analysis of all sources defines whether the party PVV promoting his election program on immigration in practice. The main sources in this case are statements and arguments of PVV representatives presented at meetings of the Lower House (Tweede Kamer der Staten - Generaal). This thesis also aims to determine whether the positions of the party on the issue of immigration is crucial to its voters and whether they would vote for this party even if PVV would change its approach to this problem. For this research are used results of previously conducted public opinion surveys and..