The Dystopian Novel Fueling the Far Right’s Migration Myths
Right-wing voices swiftly and loudly presented the crisis as the prophetic fulfillment of a fifty-year-old book. Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, published in 1973, envisions France swamped by an invasion of a million third-world migrants arriving from the sea.The language and imagery of Raspail’s novel have made it a formative text for the anti-immigrant right, both in Europe and America. Each new migrant crisis, no matter how transitory, is taken as confirmation of the book’s vision, fueling an unrealistic and ultimately violent worldview.
- ▪Right-wing voices swiftly and loudly presented the crisis as the prophetic fulfillment of a fifty-year-old book.
- ▪Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, published in 1973, envisions France swamped by an invasion of a million third-world migrants arriving from the sea.The language and imagery of Raspail’s novel have made it a formative text for the anti
- ▪Each new migrant crisis, no matter how transitory, is taken as confirmation of the book’s vision, fueling an unrealistic and ultimately violent worldview.
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| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:57:53 GMT |
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The Dystopian Novel Fueling the Far Right’s Migration MythsFrom Ceuta to Washington, hard-right leaders regularly cite Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel to transform real-world border events into apocalyptic threats to Western civilization.Juliette HeinzlefAugust 12Upgrade to listen19 minutesMembers of the Spanish Army’s ‘Regulares’ infantry forces watch a group of migrants near the border post of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on August 2, 2026. (Photo by Henry Nicholls / AFP via Getty Images).SOME 72,000 PEOPLE—mostly Moroccans—forced their way into the small Spanish North African city of Ceuta on July 30 and 31.
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