Does being for less immigration mean a party is inherently right-wing?

[politicus]

In Denmark the Progress Party is clearly a Libertarian party, whereas the Danish Peoples Party (not the Peoples Party..) is a centrist party on economics and welfare. But conservative on law and order issues, church/state relationship and environmental issues.
I think all European anti-immigration parties are conservative on law and order issues, euro-sceptics and pro the "established order"on cultural issues. In that sense they are conservative. But not necessarily on economics, since they often have a working class constituency.

[politicus]

What Sibboleth said. Xenophobia is a right-wing value. Openness and internationalism are left-wing values. Period.

1. Openness and internationalism are liberal/libertarian values as well, and socialists can be nationalist (most third world/ex colony socialists are).

2. You don't have to be xenophobic to be anti-immigration. There are plenty of economic and environmental reasons to be against mass immigration.

3. It doesn't make much sense to define right and left in other terms than socioeconomic ones.