Fascism and Immigration Policies: An Analysis of Political Ideologies

This essay examines the political ideology of fascism and its opposition to open borders, particularly concerning immigration. It argues that fascism, historically exemplified by regimes like Italy between 1922 and 1943, prioritizes the preservation of a nation's cultural and ethnic identity. Fascists believe that unrestricted immigration can dilute or undermine this identity, leading to cultural disgrace. The essay highlights instances where nations have implemented policies to protect their borders from immigrants, citing the protection of national interests as justification. It concludes that fascists advocate for closed borders to safeguard the perceived purity and dominance of the majority culture within a state, reflecting a broader ideology of cultural and religious dominance.

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There is a growing trend of immigrants to move to other states around the world fleeing
war and others looking for opportunities. The same clash regarding policing the boundaries to
prevent immigrants has exploded all through the globe. In Europe, for example, the Chancellor
Angela Markel’s government hardly endured a storm on how to handle the continual flow of
immigrants looking for refuge in Germany (Goldberg, 2018). Fascism is a political ideology that
maintains open borders to immigrants is against the spirit of the majority based on culture or
ethnicity. Fascism has never disappeared in the world, which is an historical ideology and
regime, which fashioned the name and adopted the ideology of explicitly (Blake, 2018). The
essay will argue that fascism does not support the idea of opening state’s borders to immigrants.
Many including America censure the European immigration starts with the thought that
borders protect “outsiders” from entering the country. One widespread justification of
safeguarding the border from immigrants start with the idea that every nation has it own
idiosyncratic national character, as well as that the state boundaries safeguard it from being
overpowered by foreigners (Heywood, 2017). Many fascists consider that a state is an ethnic or
cultural entity where immigration interferes with structure of the state. Fascism as an ideology
was only epitomized and made visible by the Italian regime between 1922 and 1943 (Albright,
2018). Many regimes around the world clearly have demonstrated the fact that it promotes
fascism where it has “protected” its borders from immigrants from Europe and Mexico in the
name of protecting the interests of Americans. Many countries in the world displays features,
like extreme form of nationalism, the methodical racism, the macho-populism, as well as an
inherent legitimization of violence that are typical of racism. In many instances, leaders around

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the world have unconditionally stated that the wind of migration to Europe could enduringly alter
its culture, as well as that amounts to disgrace (Albright, 2018).
The fascist believes that “real” society in a state may be identified with one specific
culture. Consequently, it perfectly maintains that all those who are not citizens of the
preponderance in the state are less significant to a specific nation. This perspective stresses the
ideologies of cultural, as well as religious dominance, which has resulted in enormous harm all
through history. Fascism as a philosophy started with the idea that only definite European
citizens were actual inheritors of the European history and others were taken as interlopers, who
were lowering the splendor of European culture (Blake, 2018).
In conclusion, fascists hold that states should not open their borders to immigrants
because it will cause “shame” to ethnicity or culture that is considered the majority. This has
been apparent in the latest efforts by a number of governments to stop immigrants from Mexico
and Europe from entering their territories because the administrations believe that their citizens
are more important than outsiders.

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