"Whether it's residency requirements or the rules around gaining citizenship, the drift towards the right in many countries in Europe is affecting all foreign residents and creating a hostile environment, experts say. Amid a mood of tightening immigration policies and hardening political rhetoric, governments and opposition parties across Europe are outlining proposals to tighten the rules for new and old arrivals both legal and illegal."
""Surging anti-migrant politics in Europe is making it harder for legal migrants to achieve long-term integration by creating longer and more difficult citizenship and residency pathways. This affects legal migrants through stricter language and civics requirements, increased scrutiny of their status, and potential social exclusion, even as the political focus is more often on irregular migration. Overall, this is contributing to a more unwelcoming environment, despite some countries acknowledging the economic contributions of migrants," she adds."
Far-right and rightward shifts across Europe are prompting governments and opposition parties to propose and enact stricter citizenship and residency rules. Measures include tougher language and civics tests, increased status scrutiny, longer pathways to naturalization, and policies aimed at both irregular and legal migrants. Parties such as AfD, Sweden Democrats and Vox, and radical-right governments in Hungary and Italy, along with coalition influence in Sweden, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands, are moving the debate rightward. These changes make long-term integration harder, increase social exclusion risks, and create a more unwelcoming environment despite recognition of migrants' economic contributions.
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