There is an ongoing problem of racism in Germany and the United States. In the early 1990s Germany reunified, but many migrant workers decided to stay, the biggest community being the Turks. The Turks were invited to Germany during the Cold War to work and live, although the plan was not meant to be permanent. […]
2015
Does Xenophobia have a Face?
In The Age of Migration De Haas refers racism and xenophobia interchangeably; previously, I associated xenophobia only with the fear of foreign people or culture (De Haas 2020). According to The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy however, my assessment was incomplete. The book defines xenophobia as “an unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, […]
“Dirty Labor”: Construction Workers in Russia
Why do migrants work in jobs that natives shun? And why do natives resent them for it? In many of the cases we have studied so far, there seems to be a disconnect between the economic realities of a country and the attitudes of its citizens. In the case of Russia, we see that migrant […]