Abstract
Immigration and the European Union (EU) have become two highly contested issues in Western European politics. This work compares the positions of two ‘different’ populist-Eurosceptic parties on these two matters: the Northern League (LN) and the Five Star Movement (M5S). The chapter proposes a multifaceted conceptualization of the EU and the migration issues to investigate how LN and M5S position across their multiple sub-dimensions. The empirical analysis is based on an original data set of parliamentary speeches delivered by the two parties’ representatives in two distinct institutional arenas: the Italian and the European Parliament. The results show that LN’s positions are guided by cultural-identitarian and sovereignist arguments, while M5S mobilizes the two issues to boost its anti-elitist claims.