New Social Movements in German y in the Context of Migration Crisis

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present the profile of three social movements operating in contemporary Germany, whose activities are directly connected with the issue of migration crisis and whose ideological profile can be classified as extreme right, as well as an attempt at placing them in the theory of new social movements. According to the research hypothesis, the selected groups present multiple difficulties in terms of applying this theory into their activities. By the application of qualitative content analysis, the analysis of the activities of the selected movements in a public space but also the scientific discourse dedicated to them, it was demonstrated that the phenomenon of extreme right social movements is not convergent with the category of new social movements. In the first part of the article, the profile of three German extreme right groups (PEGIDA, Pro-Bewegung and HoGeSa) was presented. Subsequently, the results of available sociological and political research conducted recently by German scientists were demonstrated, highlighting the difficulties in obtaining sufficient research material that is required in order to draw scientific conclusions about this type of movements. In the next part, the elements of the theory of new social movement were correlated with the current profile of new extreme right anti-immigrant social movements, indicating similarities and discrepancies. In the conclusion it was shown that the differences constitute a gap in the analysis of new extreme right social movements and open up the possibility of further research.