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Xenophobia

  1. definition
  2. examples and/or illustrations
  3. other useful sources
  4. bibliography


Definition

Noun

  1. (Psychology) hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture
  2. an abnormal fear or hatred of foreigners and strange things.

The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/xenophobia Accessed 12/04/2012

  1. 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

 

Examples and/or Illustrations

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

 

Other Useful Sources

Edited by: Bolaffi, Guido, Raffaele Bracalenti, Peter Braham and Sandro Gindro. 2003. Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture. Sage Publications Ltd, Rome

 

Bibliography

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