Anna McKeever

Anna is a political scientist, with a particular interest in immigration policy making and conservative parties. She received her PhD in Political Science from Ulster University in 2018. Anna’s research interests include conservative and radical right parties, immigration, integration and British and French politics. Her current research, which is funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust examines the decline of mainstream parties, exploring why they have suffered substantial electoral losses on national level, but retained their dominance on regional and local levels, with a focus on France. Her first book Immigration Policy and Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2020. It examined immigration policy logic of the conservative parties in the UK, Switzerland and France, mapping the factors that led to the introduction of more restrictive immigration policies and the mechanisms that accounted for it. Her research appears in the journals of French Politics and Population, Space and Place. Before joining UWS Anna worked as a lecturer at Ulster University. She holds two research focused masters, one from Central European University and one from the University of Lausanne and speaks 4 languages.