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The Immigrant Tides: Xenophobia in Western History Xenophobia as Neither Universal Nor Historically Invariable

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Recent Western history is marked by waves of migration based on political and social changes, including histories of wars, colonization, and capitalist trade route developments. This chapter discusses this history as well as anti-immigrant reactions, legitimized through Inquisition, anti-Semitic movements, eugenics, colonialism, and capitalist globalization and political developments.

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Yakushko, O. (2018). The Immigrant Tides: Xenophobia in Western History Xenophobia as Neither Universal Nor Historically Invariable. In: Modern-Day Xenophobia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00644-0_3

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