By the early 1600s, communities of European immigrants dotted the Eastern seaboard, including the Spanish in Florida, the British in New England and Virginia, the Dutch in New York, and the Swedes in Delaware. Some, including the Pilgrims and Puritans, came for religious freedom.

It’s a combination of two Greek words, xénos, which means “stranger or guest,” and phóbos, which means “fear or panic.”

May 2008

Xenophobia is the excessive fear, dislike, and even hostility toward of anything “foreign” or to anything and anybody from outside one’s own social group, nation, or country (Hjerm, 1998, 2009; McEvoy, 1995; Orenstein, 1985).

Examples of xenophobia in the United States include acts of discrimination and violence against Latinx, Mexican, and Middle Eastern immigrants. Certainly, not everyone who is xenophobic starts wars or performs hate crimes. But even veiled xenophobia can have insidious effects on both individuals and society.

On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft.

It’s a combination of two Greek words, xénos, which means “stranger or guest,” and phóbos, which means “fear or panic”

The most obvious motives advanced for the socio-economic causes of Xenophobia are unemployment, poverty and inadequate or lack of service delivery which are mostly politically attributed

Causes A report by the Human Sciences Research Council identified four broad causes for the violence: relative deprivation, specifically intense competition for jobs, commodities and housing; group processes, including psychological categorisation processes that are nationalistic rather than superordinate

The South African Institute of Race Relations stated that the riots were similar in nature and origin to the 2008 xenophobic riots that also occurred in Johannesburg2019 Johannesburg riots

According to a 1998 Human Rights Watch report, immigrants from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique living in the Alexandra township were “physically assaulted over a period of several weeks in January 1995, as armed gangs identified suspected undocumented migrants and marched them to the police station in an attempt to ‘

Discrimination on the grounds of ethnic and social origin (‘xenophobia’) has consistently been one of the top three equality rights violations reported to the SAHRC since 2012, accounting for 4% of all equality related complaints reported to the SAHRC during

SOUTH AFRICA AND XENOPHOBIA Xenophobia in South Africa is a phenomenon synonymous with violence and hatred towards ‘foreigners’

Examples of xenophobia in the United States include acts of discrimination and violence against Latinx, Mexican, and Middle Eastern immigrants Certainly, not everyone who is xenophobic starts wars or performs hate crimes But even veiled xenophobia can have insidious effects on both individuals and society