Further Research

Articles on nationalism:
The rise of anti-immigrant attitudes, violence and nationalism in Costa Rica
http://theconversation.com/the-rise-of-anti-immigrant-attitudes-violence-and-nationalism-in-costa-rica-73899

• Costa Rica adverse to conflict, violence and poverty
• Congressman, Ricardo Toldeo, critical of immigrants - wanted to close Nicaragua borders
• Divide between 'white', middle class, educated Costa Ricans, and poor, dark-skinned Nicaraguans
• "Citizens feel that their way of life is under threat"

It's Not Just Trump: A Toxic Right-Wing Nationalism Is Rising Across the Planet
http://www.alternet.org/world/its-not-just-trump-toxic-right-wing-nationalism-rising-across-planet

• Politcal leaders gave voice to converns over globalisation
• Trump anti-Islam; radical
• Between 1991 ad 2011, China closed 2.4 million American jobs
• Right-wing parties in Europe scored votes by using nativist, anti-islamic responses to globalisation

Opinion: The nationalist wave in the U.S. and Europe that liberals still don’t get
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-nationalist-wave-in-the-us-and-europe-that-liberals-still-dont-get-2017-03-20

• Geert Wilders - nationalist candidate in the Netherlands
  - lost election
  - strong (racist) views towards immigrants
• "Nationalism assumes distinctions"
• Nazi Germany wouldn't have happened without obsession with national identity
• Nationalism at the root of our existence
• Poor people more affected by immigration
• Hitler played on the fact that citizens didn't have much to be proud of after WW1 and the Great Depression, except being German

Nationalism is driving us towards a hard Brexit that puts Britain at risk
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/article-50-theresa-may-brexit-nationalism-driving-us-to-hard-brexit-pat-mcfadden-labour-a7656151.html

• Theresa May recently evoked Article 50
• No more access to the Single market
• Customs Union membership rejected
• Advocators don't care about economic consequences

Overall thoughts:

• There seems to be a strong divide between nationalism and globalisation
• People are using their "patriotism" as an excuse to be racist/xenophobic

Articles on Marine Le Pen:

Marine Le Pen promises crackdown on immigration and globalisation

https://www.ft.com/content/9854f5e4-ebc3-11e6-930f-061b01e23655

• Supports chanted "France! France!" and "On est chez nous!" ("This is our country")
• In favour of Trump's victory
• Considers radical Islam barbaric (evoking fear within her audiences)
• Anti-immigration
• Wants to make it harder for migrants to become French citizens
• "There is no rightwing and no leftwing any more," she said. "There is only those who support globalisation and patriots"

Le Pen says uncontrolled immigration has pushed France to the brink of ‘CIVIL WAR’

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/778995/marine-le-pen-french-election-president-civil-war-immigration

• Blames France's practically 'non-existent' immigration policies for refugee crisis
• "The situation is spiralling out of control, and things can only get worse"
• Some migrants refused to integrate into French society
• “They have intimidated and threatened France via a series of anti-French and terrorist attacks. Civil war is no longer a dream, but a real possibility.”
• Radical extremists, not migrants, were the 'enemy'
• The FN leader added that all citizens had to “learn to love France,” and that, if elected president in May, she would let the French nationals decide “who can be French” via a nationwide debate on citizenship.

note: I don't know how credible this information is since there are no sources

France election: Why people are voting for Marine Le Pen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/39109365

• Her supporters want their country back
• Some believe that she isn't racist - they just support the French way of living
• Others support her as they want to be protects from immigrants

note: this video was really interesting to see the first hand perspectives of Le Pen's supporters, rather than just reading about her

What are Marine Le Pen's policies?

http://www.euronews.com/2017/02/09/what-do-we-know-about-marine-le-pen-s-policies

• I said the evening of Trump’s election that this is not the end of the world, it’s the end of a world. The EU world is ultra-liberalism, savage globalisation, artificially created across nations. I believe that this world is dead,” she told BBC Radio.
• Wants to distance herself from her father's far-right legacy
• Claims to be "In the name of the people"
• Has a strong stance on law and order - visited prisons
• Wants to create a new world order
• Wants to leave the EU - finds it a "failure"

Overall thoughts:

• Has the belief that you must have an extreme love for you country otherwise you can't be a part of it
• Promotes her 'patriotism' by using immigrants as a binary opposition