Noun
- (Psychology) hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture
- an abnormal fear or hatred of foreigners and strange things.
The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/xenophobia Accessed 12/04/2012
- intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries: racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe
OxfordDictionary.com http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/xenophobia Accessed 12/04/2012
Synonyms: racism, nationalism, bigotry, isolationism, racial hatred, ethnocentrism, jingoism, racialism, racial intolerance, ethnocentricity
Used in a sentence:
“[D]espite the efforts of the international community, the principal objectives of the three Decades to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination have not been attained and that countless human beings continue to the present day to be victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”.
United Nations. 2001. World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance Declaration. http://www.un.org/WCAR/durban.pdf Accessed 28/04/2012
Edited by: Bolaffi, Guido, Raffaele Bracalenti, Peter Braham and Sandro Gindro. 2003. Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture. Sage Publications Ltd, Rome
Moore, Kimberley A. “Xenophobia in American Courts,” Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 4, (2003): 1497-1550.
OxfordDictionary.com http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/xenophobia Accessed 12/04/2012
The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/xenophobia Accessed 12/04/2012
United Nations. 2001. World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance Declaration. http://www.un.org/WCAR/durban.pdf Accessed 28/04/2012
Other Related Terms: immigration; marginalization; entrenched inequality; repatriation, integration and settlement