Ethnopopulists frame internal minorities as foreign fifth columns to justify their exclusion.

Evidence

By casting both ‘elites’ and ‘minorities’ as hostile outsiders, ethnopopulist imaginaries represent extremely truncated idealised sovereignties (Figure 1). In this way, ethnopopulists portray an entire class of citizens or residents of the state as threats to the nation, excluding them from their conceptualisation of the core nation-people. Ethnic minorities are the traditional target, particularly minorities believed to have powerful and hostile external homeland states at their back (Mylonas 2013). To elevate the threat of these ‘national others’, ethnopopulists configure them as or ‘fifth columns’ or ‘fronts’ of hostile foreign powers (Mylonas and Radnitz 2022). — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 30

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘ethnopopulist imaginary’ as a truncated sovereignty built by casting elites and minorities as hostile outsiders — the core conception the chapter builds on.
• XREF: connects to: Ethnopopulism frames elites as colluding with ethnic others to justify hardline measures. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 41; Ethnocentric racism targets different minorities while sharing commensurable structures across nations — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2571; Cultural difference is racialized into immutable grounds for excluding Muslims from citizenship (+2 more)

Related

• Ethnopopulism frames elites as colluding with ethnic others to justify hardline measures. (similarity 0.84)
• Ethnocentric racism targets different minorities while sharing commensurable structures across nations (similarity 0.78)
• Racial discourse actively produces exclusion, not just retroactive justification (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ethnopopulism frames elites as colluding with ethnic others to justify hardline measures. #expands (0.90) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 41
• Racial discourse actively produces exclusion, not just retroactive justification #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 24
• Cultural difference is racialized into immutable grounds for excluding Muslims from citizenship #exemplifies (0.80)
• Ethnocentric racism targets different minorities while sharing commensurable structures across nations #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2571
• Ethnonationalism frames politics as ingroup versus outgroup needing exclusion. #qualifies (0.75) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 11