Be sure to catch Professor John Veugelers’ recent features in the Washington Post and Swiss French-language newspaper Le Temps. As a political sociologist and expert on right-wing extremism and immigration politics in Europe and North America, Prof. Veugelers commented to the Washington Post on last month’s French elections. Drawing on his research on the far-right history of the southern French city Toulon, he adds important context to the discussion of French electoral politics. In Le Temps, Prof. Veugelers notes that Toulon’s far-right municipal government in the 1990s led to corruption in the public sector, discrimination in the cultural sector, and a decline of the city’s reputation within the region, nation, and western Europe. Read the full article here.
John Veugelers is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research combines sociology, history, and political science to examine right-wing extremism and immigration politics in Europe and North America.