xenophobia

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xenophobia

hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

xenophobia

an exaggerated hostility towards or fear of foreigners. See ETHNOCENTRISM.

Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000

Xenophobia

Boxer Rebellion

Chinese rising aimed at ousting foreign interlopers (1900). [Chinese Hist.: Van Doren, 334–335]

Hermit Kingdom

the Korea; so called for 300-year closed-door policy. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 286]

House Un-American Activities Committee

conducted investigations to purge government of foreign influences. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1641]

Know-Nothing Party

aimed at WASP control of government by depriving naturalized Americans and Roman Catholics of political rights. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 371]

McCarthyism

from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who acted out morbid fear of aliens, especially Communists. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 409]

New Orleans riots

anti-Italian mobs lynched 11 immigrants after Sicilian murder trial (1891). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 309]

Sacco and Vanzetti

(Nicola, 1891–1927) (Bartolomeo, 1888–1927) Italian anarchists convicted in controversial murder trial (1921). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 411]

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(a) We participants in the Conference "Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism in the Context of Global Migration" appeal to all believers who affirm, in their own tradition, the dignity of the human person and solidarity among peoples, so that all instances of violations of fundamental human rights, xenophobia and racism, are steadfastly countered by education (including human rights education), the democratic process, dialogue between religions, law and love.

Message from the conference "Xenophobia, Racism and Populist Nationalism in the Context of Global Migration"

xenophobia" (18) as a fundamental feature of an international

Governing Xenophobia

This is important in that it shows how xenophobia is part of the socio-political context of South Africa.

Social positionality and Xenophobia: the case of rugby player Tendai Mtawarira in South Africa

Racism, xenophobia and hate crimes have no place in our country.

Council to stand against racism

A message below reads "you are not alone against racism and xenophobia. The greatest number of people in Britain welcome you".

Poster generation fighting racism

Meanwhile, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein yesterday spoke out over xenophobia in the UK.

Nurse targeted by racist abuse in bar after EU leave vote

America is Not Post-Racial: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and the 44th President is a study about the American people who do not support ObamaAEs politics and to such an extreme that they can be called oObama haters.o This book provides a detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis of this group of people; a case-study of the response of this group to a black male, regardless of how clean cut and clean his record is; and descriptions of issues potentially useful to engage to reduce racial hatred.

America is Not Post-Racial: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and the 44th President

"The practice of inciting hatred and xenophobia is picking up pace and Central Asia should not become an object or subject of global competition," Idrissov said, reports RIA-Novosti.

Central Asia becomes turbulent due to conflict of world powers: Kazakh FM

Xenophobia, as many are calling it, is a disease that can destroy Africa faster than HIV/Aids.

Afrophobia is undermining African unity

Xenophobia thrives in South Africa as is the case with much of the world.

South Africa: Xenophobia In South Africa: A Lack Of Visionary Leadership

JOHANNESBURG (CyHAN)- South African police on Thursday clashed with anti-foreigner protesters in Johannesburg as xenophobia violence spread.

S. African police clash with anti-foreigner protesters

Articles include the incidence of epidemic fear (the "pollution" from the East, quarantines, contracting xenophobia, Dickens and Collins and the perils of imagined infanticide), xenophobic panic (the visual empire at the Crystal Palace exhibition in London in 1851) foreign invasion (Jewish space, the exiles' London, Punch and the campaign against Italian organ grinders, a mystery language, and Dracula's blood of many races).