Nativism and xenophobia surge in times of economic anxiety or cultural unease, and though the targets may change, the arguments against all of them tend to be all too familiar: They steal jobs. They ...
Refer often enough, as politicians and editorialists do, to "the Judaeo-Christian tradition" and any Hindus, Buddhists, animists, Confucianists, Moslems, or Zoroastrians who happen to be in the ...
Guess what these developments have in common? • Immigration is quickly becoming the number-one issue of the 2006 Congressional campaign. • CAFTA, an innocuous trade agreement with five Central ...
CHICAGO — A political science professor recently co-wrote a book addressing nativism in the United States and people’s need for belonging. Author Clifford Young joined WGN News on Saturday morning to ...
Historically, economic hardship and high unemployment tend to bring out anti-immigration sentiment. This can mean economic protectionism as well as cultural nativism--an attempt to preserve historical ...
Editor’s note: Jim Schutze is taking some well-earned time off, so we’re digging into the archives to bring you some of his hits. This one, from August 2013 is about Farmers Branch’s ultimately failed ...
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned of a brewing "systemic crisis" fueled by the rise of populist and anti-establishment politics around world, saying the U.S. needs to rely on "old ...
"Nativism," as defined by Merriam-Webster, is "a policy favoring inhabitants as opposed to immigrants." According to Wikipedia, nativism is the "fear that certain new immigrants will inject alien ...
The influx of Central American immigrants in the past few years has been politicized and used for political gains election after election. For President Trump, the rejection of Central American ...
Brian Wong is a DPhil in Political Theory candidate at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Rhodes Scholar from Hong Kong. They are the founder of the Oxford Political Review. At the heart of Hong Kong’s ...
Historically, economic hardship and high unemployment tend to bring out anti-immigration sentiment. This can mean economic protectionism as well as cultural nativism--an attempt to preserve historical ...