xenophobia

{{short description|Dislike of anything that is perceived to be foreign or strange}}

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Xenophobia (from {{langx|grc|ξένος}} ({{lang|grc-Latn|xénos}}), 'strange, foreign, or alien', and {{wikt-lang|grc|φόβος}} ({{lang|grc-Latn|phóbos}}), 'fear')Oxford Standard English Dictionary' (OED). Oxford Press, 2004, CDROM version. is the fear or dislike of anything that is perceived as being foreign or strange.{{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/xenophobia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231205732/https://www.lexico.com/definition/xenophobia |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 December 2019 |title=xenophobia |dictionary=Lexico UK English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press}}{{cite Dictionary.com|xenophobia}}{{cite Merriam-Webster|xenophobia|access-date=22 April 2019}} It is an expression that is based on the perception that a conflict exists between an in-group and an out-group and it may manifest itself in suspicion of one group's activities by members of the other group, a desire to eliminate the presence of the group that is the target of suspicion, and fear of losing a national, ethnic, or racial identity.Guido Bolaffi. Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture. SAGE Publications Ltd., 2003. Pp. 332.{{cite web |url=https://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/migration/taskforce/docs/wcar.pdf |title=International Migration, Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia |date=August 2001 |publisher=International Labour Office; International Organization for Migration; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |page=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331201752/https://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/migration/taskforce/docs/wcar.pdf |archive-date=31 March 2019}}

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Alternative definitions

A 1997 review article on xenophobia holds that it is "an element of a political struggle about who has the right to be cared for by the state and society: a fight for the collective good of the modern state."{{Cite journal|last=Wimmer|first=Andreas|year=1997|title=Explaining xenophobia and racism: A critical review of current research approaches|journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies|volume=20|issue=1|page=17|doi=10.1080/01419870.1997.9993946}}

According to Italian sociologist Guido Bolaffi, xenophobia can also be exhibited as an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" which is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality".

History

=Ancient Africa=

In Ancient Egypt, foreigners were conceived of through a complex xenophobic discourse. Given ancient Egypt's long history, Egyptians encountered a number of different peoples. Peoples living in present-day Greece, Sudan, and Turkey, for instance, were referred to by various names in Egyptian. According to one source, "...all the names have at the end the same hieroglyphic sign– a determinative or taxogram– indicating the word group. This is the hieroglyph for a hilly country or the desert– indicating 'foreign land' (khaset)...By contrast, Egypt (Kemet/Black land) is written with the determinative for a town. This indicates that Egyptians regarded their part of the world as cultivated, ordered and civilized, while the other countries were not."{{cite journal |last1=Cornelius |first1=Sakkie |title=Ancient Egypt and the Other |journal=Scriptura: Journal for Biblical, Theological and Contextual Hermeneutics |date=2010 |volume=104± |page=322 |doi=10.7833/104-0-174|hdl=10019.1/103151 |hdl-access=free }} This indicates an early example of a xenophobic attitude towards other peoples. In addition, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics indicate xenophobic ideas about a necessity to conquer non-Egyptians, with Hittites in particular being referred to as "vile".{{cite book |last1=Müller-Wollermann |first1=R |last2=Zimmerman |first2=M |title=Symbolische Gewalt im Alten Ägypten. In Extreme Formen von Gewalt in Bild und Text des Altertums |date=2009 |publisher=München: Herbert Utz |pages=47–64}}

=Ancient Europe=

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An early example of xenophobic sentiment in Western culture is the Ancient Greek denigration of foreigners as "barbarians", the belief that the Greek people and culture were superior to all other peoples and cultures, and the subsequent conclusion that barbarians were naturally meant to be enslaved.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3VmQB99c5YC |title=Greeks and Barbarians |publisher=Taylor & Francis |author=Harrison, Thomas |year=2002 |page=3 |isbn=978-0-415-93959-1}}

Ancient Romans also held notions of superiority over other peoples.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfylyRawl8EC |title=The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity |publisher=Princeton University Press |author=Isaac, Benjamin H. |year=2006 |page=317 |isbn=978-0-691-12598-5}} such as in a speech attributed to Manius Acilius:

{{blockquote|There, as you know, there were Macedonians and Thracians and Illyrians, all most warlike nations, here Syrians and Asiatic Greeks, the most worthless peoples among mankind and born for slavery.}}

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Black Africans were considered especially exotic, and perhaps they were considered threateningly alien, so they are seldom if ever mentioned in Roman literature without some negative connotations. The historian Appian claims that the military commander Marcus Junius Brutus, before the battle of Philippi in 42BC, met an 'Ethiopian' outside the gates of his camp: his soldiers instantly hacked the man to pieces, taking his appearance for a bad omen—to the superstitious Roman, black was the colour of death."{{cite book |last1=of Alexandria |first1=Appian |title=The Civil Wars |page=4.17}}

= COVID-19 =

{{Main|Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic}}

The COVID-19 pandemic, which was first reported in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, led to an increase in acts and displays of Sinophobia, as well as prejudice, xenophobia, discrimination, violence, and racism against people of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent and appearance around the world.{{cite journal |last1=He |first1=Jun |last2=He |first2=Leshui |last3=Zhou |first3=Wen |last4=Nie |first4=Xuanhua |last5=He |first5=Ming |title=Discrimination and Social Exclusion in the Outbreak of COVID-19 |journal=International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |date=23 April 2020 |volume=17 |issue=8 |pages=2933 |doi=10.3390/ijerph17082933 |doi-access=free |pmid=32340349 |pmc=7215298 }}{{cite journal |last1=Devakumar |first1=Delan |last2=Shannon |first2=Geordan |last3=Bhopal |first3=Sunil S |last4=Abubakar |first4=Ibrahim |title=Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses |journal=The Lancet |date=April 2020 |volume=395 |issue=10231 |pages=1194 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30792-3 |pmid=32246915 |pmc=7146645 }} With the spread of the pandemic and the formation of COVID-19 hotspots, such as those in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, discrimination against people from these hotspots was reported.{{Cite journal|last1=Reny|first1=Tyler T.|last2=Barreto|first2=Matt A.|date=28 May 2020|title=Xenophobia in the time of pandemic: othering, anti-Asian attitudes, and COVID-19|journal=Politics, Groups, and Identities|volume=10|issue=2|pages=209–232|doi=10.1080/21565503.2020.1769693|s2cid=219749159|issn=2156-5503|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=White|first=Alexandre I. R.|date=18 April 2020|title=Historical linkages: epidemic threat, economic risk, and xenophobia|journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=395|issue=10232|pages=1250–1251|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30737-6|issn=0140-6736|pmid=32224298|pmc=7154503}}{{Cite journal|last1=Devakumar|first1=Delan|last2=Shannon|first2=Geordan|last3=Bhopal|first3=Sunil S|last4=Abubakar|first4=Ibrahim|date=April 2020|title=Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses|journal=The Lancet|volume=395|issue=10231|pages=1194|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30792-3|issn=0140-6736|pmc=7146645|pmid=32246915}}

Regional manifestations

= Americas =

{{Main|Racism in North America|Racism in South America}}

== Brazil ==

{{Main|Racism in Brazil|Racial democracy}}

Despite the majority of the country's population being of mixed (Pardo), African, or indigenous heritage, depictions of non-European Brazilians on the programming of most national television networks is scarce and typically relegated for musicians/their shows. In the case of telenovelas, Brazilians of darker skin tone are typically depicted as housekeepers or in positions of lower socioeconomic standing.{{cite web |url=http://isc.temple.edu/evanson/brazilhistory/Bahia.htm |title=Instructional Support Center |access-date=17 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121024219/http://isc.temple.edu/evanson/brazilhistory/Bahia.htm |archive-date=21 November 2011 }}Rosana Barbosa, Immigration and xenophobia: Portuguese immigrants in early 19th century Rio de Janeiro (U Press of America, 2008).Rosana Barbosa Nunes, "Immigration, xenophobia and the whitening of the Brazilian population." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 2.1 (2004): 59–74.

== Canada ==

{{main|Racism in Canada}}{{See also|Anti-Quebec sentiment}}

Muslim and Sikh Canadians have faced racism and discrimination in recent years, especially since the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the spillover effect of the United States' War on Terror.{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/11/911-muslim-women-discrimination_n_957305.html |title=9/11: Women In The Fight Against Discrimination |website=HuffPost |date=11 September 2011 |access-date=6 December 2016}}Heribert Adam, and Kogila Moodley, eds. Imagined liberation: Xenophobia, citizenship and identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada (African Sun Media, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SGb6AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 online] An increase in hate crimes targeting Ontario Muslims was reported after ISIS took responsibility for the November 2015 Paris attacks.{{Cite news |date=21 November 2015 |title=6 anti-Muslim incidents in Ontario since Paris attacks |publisher=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hate-crimes-ontario-paris-attacks-1.3328660 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220508034817/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hate-crimes-ontario-paris-attacks-1.3328660 |archive-date=8 May 2022 |access-date=8 May 2022 }}

A 2016 survey from The Environics Institute, which was a follow-up to a study conducted 10 years prior, found that there may be discriminating attitudes that may be a residual of the effects of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States.{{cite web |title=The Environics Institute: Survey of Muslims in Canada |url=http://www.environicsinstitute.org/uploads/institute-projects/survey%20of%20muslims%20in%20canada%202016%20-%20final%20report.pdf |publisher=The Environics Institute |access-date=4 March 2017}} A poll in 2009 by Maclean's revealed that 28% of Canadians viewed Islam favourably, and 30% viewed the Sikh religion favourably. 45% of respondents believed Islam encourages violence. In Quebec in particular, only 17% of respondents had a favourable view of Islam.{{cite web |last=Geddes |first=John |title=What Canadians think of Sikhs, Jews, Christians, Muslims . . . |website=Maclean's |date=28 April 2009 |url=https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/what-canadians-think-of-sikhs-jews-christians-muslims/ |access-date=11 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612152407/https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/what-canadians-think-of-sikhs-jews-christians-muslims/ |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}

==Colombia==

According to the UNHCR, by June 2019, 1.3 million of the 4 million Venezuelan refugees were in Colombia.{{Cite news|url=https://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2019/6/5cfa2a4a4/refugees-migrants-venezuela-top-4-million-unhcr-iom.html|title=Refugees and migrants from Venezuela top 4 million: UNHCR and IOM|newspaper=Unhcr |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner|date=7 June 2019|access-date=14 June 2019}} Because of their urgent situation, many migrants from Venezuela crossed the border illegally, indicating they had few opportunities to gain "access to legal and other rights or basic services and are exposed to exploitation, abuse, manipulation and a wide range of other protection risks, including racism, discrimination and xenophobia".{{Cite web|url=http://reporting.unhcr.org/node/20393|title=Venezuela Situation 2018 Supplementary Appeal {{!}} Global Focus|publisher=UN Refugee Agency|date=1 December 2018|access-date=14 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204092433/http://reporting.unhcr.org/node/20393|archive-date=4 December 2018|url-status=dead}} Since the start of the migrant crisis, media outlets and state officials have raised concerns about increasing discrimination against migrants in the country, especially xenophobia and violence against the migrants.{{cite news |title=Venezuelans brave torrential border river, face exploitation, abuse – UN urges greater protection |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/04/1036181 |access-date=15 June 2019 |work=UN News |date=5 April 2019}}

== Guyana ==

There have been racial tension between the Indo-Guyanese people and the Afro-Guyanese.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2005/09/050920_guyana_race.shtml |title=BBCCaribbean.com – News – Guyana turns attention to racism |access-date=17 June 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.guyana.org/features/conflicts_indiansandblacks.html |title=Conflict between East Indians and Blacks |access-date=17 June 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://barbadosunderground.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/indian-racism-against-afro-guyanese-in-guyana/ |title=Indian Racism Against Afro Guyanese In Guyana |work=Barbados Underground |date=31 January 2008 |access-date=17 June 2015}}

== Mexico ==

{{Main|Racism in Mexico|The Chinese in Mexico|Chinese immigration to Mexico}}

Racism in Mexico has a long history."[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEEDF1330F932A25755C0A963958260&sec=&spon= The World; Racism? Mexico's in Denial.]", The New York Times, 11 June 1995 Historically, Mexicans with light skin tones had absolute control over dark skinned Amerindians due to the structure of the Spanish colonial caste system. When a Mexican of a darker-skinned tone marries one of a lighter skinned-tone, it is common for them say that they are 'making the race better' (mejorando la raza)". This can be interpreted as a self-attack on their ethnicity."[http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2081.shtml Racism in Mexico?]", The Final Call, 23 June 2005 Despite improving economic and social conditions of indigenous Mexicans, discrimination against them continues to this day and there are few laws to protect indigenous Mexicans from discrimination. Violent attacks against indigenous Mexicans are moderately common and many times go unpunished.{{cite web |url=http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=294476 |title=Empresario agrede a valet parking, se ampara y evita la cárcel |author=La Redacción |work=Proceso |access-date=12 December 2017 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104809/http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=294476 |url-status=dead }}

On 15 March 1911, a band of Maderista soldiers entered Torreón, Mexico, and massacred 303 Chinese and five Japanese. Historian Larissa Schwartz argues that Kang Youwei had successfully organized the prosperous Chinese businessmen there, making them a visible target for class antagonism made extreme by xenophobia.Larissa N. Schwartz, "The Inconveniences Resulting from Race Mixture: The Torreon Massacre of 1911." Chinese America: History and Perspectives (1998): 57–65.

The Chinese were easy to identify in northern cities and were frequent targets especially in Sonora in the 1930s. Systematic persecution resulted from economic, political, and psychological fears of the Chinese, and the government showed little interest in protecting them.Charles C. Cumberland, "The Sonora Chinese and the Mexican Revolution." Hispanic American Historical Review 40.2 (1960): 191–211 [https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-pdf/40/2/191/776093/0400191.pdf online].{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/phr.2010.79.1.50|jstor = 10.1525/phr.2010.79.1.50|doi = 10.1525/phr.2010.79.1.50|title = Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese Mexican Relations in the Borderlands|year = 2010|last1 = Lim|first1 = Julian|journal = Pacific Historical Review|volume = 79|issue = 1|pages = 50–85}}

Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp argues that the Porfiriato, 1876–1910 promoted immigration from the Middle East. However the revolution of 1910–20 saw a surge in xenophobia and nationalism based on "mestizaje." The community divided into the economically prosperous Lebanese Mexicans who took pride in a distinct Lebanese-Mexican identity, while the downscale remainder often merged into the mestizo community.Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, . "Immigrant positioning in twentieth-century Mexico: middle easterners, foreign citizens, and multiculturalism." Hispanic American Historical Review 86.1 (2006): 61–92.

Racism against indigenous people has been a current problem in Mexico.{{Cite AV media |title=🇲🇽 Ridicule of indigenous Oscar nod highlights racism in Mexico |date=19 March 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgBozq0Ir9A |type=News |publisher=Al Jazeera |via=YouTube}} Domestic workers, many of whom are indigenous women who have moved from rural villages to cities, often face discrimination including verbal, physical or sexual abuse.{{Cite web |date=10 November 2015 |title=Mexico City's domestic workers: a life being treated as a lesser person |url=http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/10/mexico-city-domestic-workers-life-lesser-person |website=The Guardian |language=en}}

== Panama ==

{{Further|Afro-Panamanians}}

Peter Szok argues that when the United States brought in large numbers of laborers from the Caribbean—called "Afro-Panamanians"—to build the Panama Canal (1905–1914), xenophobia emerged. The local elite in Panama felt its culture was threatened: they cried out, "La Patria es el Recuerdo." ("The Homeland is the Memory") and developed a Hispanophile elitist identity through an artistic literary movement known as "Hispanismo." Another result was the election of the "overtly nationalist and anti-imperialist" Arnulfo Arias as president in 1940.Peter Szok, "'La Patria es el Recuerdo', Hispanophile Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Panama, 1903–1941." Journal of Caribbean History 31.1 (1997): 149–184.

== Venezuela ==

In Venezuela, like other South American countries, economic inequality often breaks along ethnic and racial lines.{{cite news |last=Fisher |first=Max |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/ |title=Map shows world's 'most racist' countries |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=15 May 2013 |access-date=30 April 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170430071325/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/ |archive-date=30 April 2017 }} A 2013 Swedish academic study stated that Venezuela was the most racist country in the Americas, followed by the Dominican Republic.

== United States ==

{{Main|Xenophobia in the United States}}

In a 2010 report, a network of more than 300 US-based civil rights and human rights organizations stated that "Discrimination permeates all aspects of life in the United States, and it extends to all communities of color."{{Cite web|date=5 November 2010|title=Factbox: U.S. report to U.N. Human Rights Council|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-rights-factbox/factbox-u-s-report-to-u-n-human-rights-council-idUSTRE6A41WI20101105|work=Reuters}} Discrimination against racial, ethnic, and religious minorities is widely acknowledged, especially in the case of African Americans and African Diasporic peoples in the United States, as well as other ethnic groups.

Members of every major American ethnic and religious minority group have perceived discrimination in their dealings with members of other minority racial and religious groups. Philosopher Cornel West has argued that "racism is an integral element within the very fabric of American culture and society. It is embedded in the country's first collective definition, enunciated in its subsequent laws, and imbued in its dominant way of life."{{cite book |last1=West |first1=Cornel |title=Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity |date=2002 |page=116}}

A 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center suggested that 76% of black and Asian respondents had experienced some form of discrimination, at least from time to time.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/04/09/race-in-america-2019/|title=Views on Race in America 2019 (Section titled 'Majorities of blacks, Hispanics and Asians say they have experienced discrimination because of their race or ethnicity')|date=9 April 2019|website=Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends Project|language=en-US|access-date=13 December 2019}} Studies which have been conducted by the PNAS and Nature have found that during traffic stops, officers spoke to black men in a less respectful tone than they spoke to white men and those same studies have also found that black drivers are more likely to be pulled over and searched by police than white drivers.{{Cite web |last=Amina Khan |date=16 July 2021 |title=Police officers treat Black and white men differently. You can hear it in their tone of voice |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/police-officers-treat-black-and-white-men-differently-you-can-hear-it-in-their-tone-of-voice/ar-AAMdX4h |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220508032616/https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/police-officers-treat-black-and-white-men-differently-you-can-hear-it-in-their-tone-of-voice/ar-AAMdX4h?ocid=msedgntp%23comments |archive-date=8 May 2022 |website=Microsoft News, Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |access-date=8 May 2022 |url-status=live }} Black people are also reportedly overrepresented as criminals in the media.{{Cite web |date=4 October 2021 |title=Despite skewed media image, Black men are more likely to be victimized than other groups |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/despite-skewed-media-image-black-men-are-more-likely-to-be-victimized-than-other-groups/ar-AAP8sL7 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211009050001/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/despite-skewed-media-image-black-men-are-more-likely-to-be-victimized-than-other-groups/ar-AAP8sL7?ocid=msedgntp%23comments |archive-date=9 October 2021 |website=MSN News, USA Today |language=en-US |access-date=8 May 2022 }} In 2020 the COVID-19 epidemic was often blamed on China, leading to attacks on Chinese Americans.{{Cite journal |last1=Gover |first1=Angela R. |last2=Harper |first2=Shannon B. |last3=Langton |first3=Lynn |date=2020 |title=Anti-Asian Hate Crime During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Reproduction of Inequality |journal=American Journal of Criminal Justice |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=647–667 |doi=10.1007/s12103-020-09545-1 |issn=1066-2316 |pmc=7364747 |pmid=32837171}} This represents a continuation of xenophobic attacks on Chinese Americans for 150 years.{{cite journal | doi=10.1016/j.jvir.2020.04.020 | title=Xenophobia in America in the Age of Coronavirus and Beyond | year=2020 | last1=Huang | first1=Junjian | last2=Liu | first2=Raymond | journal=Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology | volume=31 | issue=7 | pages=1187–1188 | pmid=32522506 | pmc=7188638 }}

= Asia =

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== Bhutan ==

{{See also|Ethnic cleansing in Bhutan|Bhutanese refugees}}

In 1991–92, Bhutan is said to have deported between 10,000 and 100,000 ethnic Nepalis (Lhotshampa). The actual number of refugees who were initially deported is debated by both sides. In March 2008, this population began a multiyear resettlement in third countries including the U.S, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia.{{cite web |url=http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=77513 |title=IRIN Asia – NEPAL-BHUTAN: Bhutan questions identity of 107,000 refugees in Nepal – Nepal – Refugees/IDPs |date=30 March 2008 |agency=IRIN |access-date=17 June 2015}}

== China ==

{{main|Racism in China}}

===The Boxers===

{{Main|Boxer Rebellion}}

The Boxer Rebellion was a violent anti-foreign, anti-Christian, and anti-imperialist uprising which occurred in China between 1899 and 1901. It was led by a new group, the ‘Militia United in Righteousness', the group was popularly known as the Boxers because many of its members had practiced Chinese martial arts, at the time, these martial arts were popularly referred to as Chinese Boxing. After China's defeat in war by Japan in 1895, villagers in North China feared the expansion of foreign spheres of influence and resented the extension of privileges to Christian missionaries. In a severe drought, Boxer violence spread across Shandong and the North China Plain, destroying foreign property, attacking or murdering Christian missionaries and Chinese Christians. In June 1900, Boxer fighters, convinced that they were invulnerable to foreign weapons, converged on Beijing, and their slogan was "Support the Qing government and exterminate the foreigners." Diplomats, missionaries, soldiers and some Chinese Christians took refuge in the diplomatic Legation Quarter. They were besieged for 55 days by the Imperial Army of the Chinese government and the Boxers. George Makari says that the Boxers, "promoted a violent hatred of all those from other lands and made no effort to distinguish the beneficent from the rapacious ones.... They were unabashedly xenophobic."George Makari, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (2021), pp 70–71. The Boxers were overthrown by an Eight Nation Alliance of American, Austro-Hungarian, British, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian troops—20,000 in all—that invaded China to lift the siege in August 1900. The allies imposed the Boxer Protocol in 1901, with a massive annual cash indemnity to be paid by the Chinese government. The episode generated worldwide attention and denunciation of xenophobia.Makari, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (2021), ch 4, 5.Paul A. Cohen, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (1998).

=== Chinese nationalism and xenophobia ===

Historian Mary C. Wright has argued that the combination of Chinese nationalism and xenophobia had a major impact on the Chinese worldview in the first half of the 20th century. Examining the bitterness and hatred which existed towards Americans and Europeans in the decades before the Communist takeover in 1949, she argues:

The crude fear of the white peril that the last imperial dynasty had been able to exploit in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 had been submerged but not overcome, and expanding special privileges of foreigners were irritants in increasingly wide spheres of Chinese life. These fears and irritations provided a mass sounding board for what otherwise might have been rather arid denunciations of imperialists. It is well to remember that both Nationalists and Communists have struck this note.Mary C. Wright, "Modern China in Transition, 1900–1950." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 321.1 (1959): 1–8, at p. 3.In further support see Donald Gillin, "China and the Foreigner, 1911 to 1950." South Atlantic Quarterly 58 (1969): 208–219.

===COVID-19===

In China, xenophobia against non-Chinese residents has been inflamed by the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, with foreigners being described as "foreign garbage" and targeted for "disposal".{{Cite news |last1=Walden |first1=Max |last2=Yang |first2=Samuel |name-list-style=vanc |date=9 April 2020 |title=As coronavirus sparks anti-Chinese racism, xenophobia rises in China itself |work=ABC News (Australia) |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-09/coronavirus-intensifies-anti-foreigner-sentiment-in-china/12128224}} Some black people in China were evicted from their homes by police and told to leave China within 24 hours, due to disinformation that they and other foreigners were spreading the virus.{{cite web |last=Asiedu |first=Kwasi Gyamfi |name-list-style=vanc |date=11 April 2020 |title=After enduring months of lockdown, Africans in China are being targeted and evicted from apartments |url=https://qz.com/africa/1836510/africans-in-china-being-evicted-from-homes-after-lockdown-ends/ |website=Quartz Africa}} Expressions of Chinese xenophobia and discriminatory practices, such as the exclusion of black customers from restaurants, were criticized by foreign governments and members of the diplomatic corps.{{cite news |last1=Marsh |first1=Jenni | name-list-style = vanc |title=Beijing faces a diplomatic crisis after reports of mistreatment of Africans in China causes outrage |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/asia/china-guangzhou-african-blacklash-hnk-intl/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=13 April 2020}}{{cite web |date=16 April 2020 |title='No blacks': Evicted, harassed and targeted in China for their race amid coronavirus |url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-16/china-coronavirus-black-african-evictions |website=Los Angeles Times}}

=== Hong Kong ===

Black people in Hong Kong have experienced negative comments and instances of discrimination in the job market and on public transport.{{Cite news |last=Lam Cho Wai |date=22 April 2018 |title=Crossing Divides: Africans fight Hong Kong prejudice with football |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43470709}}{{Cite web |last=Chermaine Lee and Miguel Candela |date=2 August 2020 |title=What it's like to be black and African in Hong Kong |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3095154/what-its-be-black-and-african-hong-kong-there |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109201701/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3095154/what-its-be-black-and-african-hong-kong-there |archive-date=9 November 2021 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}} Expats and South Asian minorities have faced increased xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web |last=Lau |first=Jessie |date=22 January 2022 |title=In Hong Kong, COVID-19 and Racism Make an Ugly Mix |url=https://thediplomat.com/2021/01/in-hong-kong-covid-19-and-racism-make-an-ugly-mix/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506124142/https://thediplomat.com/2021/01/in-hong-kong-covid-19-and-racism-make-an-ugly-mix/ |archive-date=6 May 2022 |website=The Diplomat |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Patrick Blennerhassett |date=15 March 2021 |title=Covid-19 shaming and racism in Hong Kong needs to stop as gyms find themselves unfairly in the crosshairs |url=https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3125389/covid-19-shaming-and-racism-hong-kong-needs-stop-gyms-find |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801233404/https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3125389/covid-19-shaming-and-racism-hong-kong-needs-stop-gyms-find |archive-date=1 August 2021 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}

=== Persecution of Uighurs ===

{{Main|Persecution of Uyghurs in China}}

Since 2017, China has come under intense international criticism for its treatment of one million Muslims (the majority of them are Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic minority mostly in Xinjiang) who are being held in detention camps without any legal process.{{Cite web |date=5 July 2019 |title='Cultural genocide': China separating thousands of Muslim children from parents for 'thought education' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-children-uighur-family-separation-thought-education-a8989296.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422051855/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-muslim-children-uighur-family-separation-thought-education-a8989296.html |archive-date=22 April 2020 |access-date=27 April 2020 |work=The Independent}}{{Cite web|date=10 July 2019|title=UN: Unprecedented Joint Call for China to End Xinjiang Abuses|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/10/un-unprecedented-joint-call-china-end-xinjiang-abuses|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217070044/https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/10/un-unprecedented-joint-call-china-end-xinjiang-abuses|archive-date=17 December 2019|access-date=18 December 2020|publisher=Human Rights Watch}} Critics of the policy have described it as the Sinicization of Xinjiang and some have also called it an ethnocide or a cultural genocide.JoanneSmith Finley, "Why scholars and activists increasingly fear a Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang." Journal of Genocide Research 23.3 (2021): 348–370.

== Indonesia ==

{{Main|Racism in Indonesia|Papua conflict|Discrimination against Chinese Indonesians}}

A number of discriminatory laws against Chinese Indonesians were enacted by the government of Indonesia. In 1959, President Sukarno approved PP 10/1959 that forced Chinese Indonesians to close their businesses in rural areas and relocate into urban areas. Moreover, political pressures in the 1970s and 1980s restricted the role of the Chinese Indonesian in politics, academics, and the military. As a result, they were thereafter constrained professionally to becoming entrepreneurs and professional managers in trade, manufacturing, and banking. In 1998, Indonesia riots over higher food prices and rumors of hoarding by merchants and shopkeepers often degenerated into anti-Chinese attacks.{{Cite web |date=25 November 2016 |title=Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians |url=http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/nov/25/jakarta-chinese-indonesians-governor-ahok |website=The Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Schonhardt |first=Sara |date=26 November 2016 |title=In Indonesia, Fears Rise Among Ethnic Chinese Amid Blasphemy Probe |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-indonesia-fears-rise-among-ethnic-chinese-amid-blasphemy-probe-1480161601 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220213045340/https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-indonesia-fears-rise-among-ethnic-chinese-amid-blasphemy-probe-1480161601 |archive-date=13 February 2022 |issn=0099-9660 |access-date=1 May 2022 }}

Native Papuans in the country have faced racism,{{Cite web |last=Dewi |first=Karina Utami |date=10 June 2020 |title=Comparing Black Lives Matter in the US and Papuan Lives Matter in Indonesia, what are the similarities and differences? |url=http://theconversation.com/comparing-black-lives-matter-in-the-us-and-papuan-lives-matter-in-indonesia-what-are-the-similarities-and-differences-140346 |website=The Conversation |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Paddock |first=Richard C. |date=12 December 2020 |title='Free Papua Movement' Intensifies Amid Escalating Violence |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/world/asia/west-papua-independence.html |access-date=30 April 2022 |issn=0362-4331}} and several reports have accused Indonesia of committing a "slow-motion genocide" in West Papua.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Rochelle |date=22 October 2015 |title=West Papuan women left isolated and beset by violence under Indonesian rule |url=http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/22/west-papua-women-indonesian-rule-violence |website=The Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |last1=Webb-Gannon |first1=Camellia |last2=Elmslie |first2=Jim |last3=Kareni |first3=Ronny |date=27 May 2021 |title=West Papua is on the verge of another bloody crackdown |url=http://theconversation.com/west-papua-is-on-the-verge-of-another-bloody-crackdown-161272 |website=The Conversation |language=en |publication-place=University of Wollongong}}{{Cite web |last=NAJ Taylor |date=19 October 2011 |title=West Papua: A history of exploitation |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/10/19/west-papua-a-history-of-exploitation |publisher=Al Jazeera |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Jed Smith |date=25 April 2017 |title=The West Papuan Warriors Are A Rugby League Team Trying To Stop A Genocide |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnvgaz/the-west-papuan-warriors-are-a-rugby-league-team-trying-to-stop-a-genocide |website=Vice |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=9 March 2016 |title=Slow-motion genocide for West Papua ethnic minorities and Christians |url=https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Slow-motion-genocide-for-West-Papua-ethnic-minorities-and-Christians-36902.html |website=Asianews.it |language=en}} Hostility towards the LGBT community has been recently reported,{{Cite news |last=Stapleton |first=Dan F. |date=11 August 2017 |title=Will hardline Islamic attitudes stop Lombok becoming the 'new Bali'? |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/d2c24350-7910-11e7-a3e8-60495fe6ca71 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220422045550/https://www.ft.com/content/d2c24350-7910-11e7-a3e8-60495fe6ca71 |archive-date=22 April 2022 |access-date=1 May 2022 }}{{Cite web |last=STEPHEN WRIGHT |date=13 February 2019 |title=Gay Muslim comic gone from Instagram after Indonesia warning |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/instagram-removes-gay-muslim-comics-indonesia-warning-61040747 |website=ABC News |language=en}} especially in Aceh.{{Cite AV media |last=Suroosh Alvi |title=This Is What Life Is Like Under Sharia Law with Suroosh Alvi |date=1 February 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SPkw-1_rb0 |publisher=Vice on HBO |language=en |via=YouTube }}{{Cite web |last=Saeed Kamali Dehghan |date=24 September 2014 |title=Indonesia's Aceh province debates public floggings for homosexuality |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/indonesia-aceh-homosexuality-gay-flogging |website=The Guardian |language=en}}

== Japan ==

{{Main|Xenophobia in Japan|}}

During its Edo period, Japan had successfully isolated itself from the outside world, allowing anti-foreign sentiments and myths to multiply unchecked by actual observation.Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, Anti-Foreignism & Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The 'New Theses' of 1825 (1986). In 2005, a United Nations report expressed concerns about racism in Japan and it also stated that the government's recognition of the depth of the problem was not total.{{cite web |url=http://www.unic.or.jp/new/pr05-057-E.htm |title=Press Conference by Mr Doudou Diène, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights |access-date=5 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329065052/http://www.unic.or.jp/new/pr05-057-E.htm |archive-date=29 March 2007 }}[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4671687.stm "Japan racism 'deep and profound".] BBC News (11 July 2005). Retrieved 5 January 2007. The author of the report, Doudou Diène (Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights), concluded after a nine-day investigation that racial discrimination and xenophobia in Japan primarily affected three groups: national minorities, Latin Americans of Japanese descent, mainly Japanese Brazilians, and foreigners from poor countries.{{cite web |url=http://www.imadr.org/geneva/2006/G0610396.pdf |title='Overcoming "Marginalization" and "Invisibility"', International Movement against all forms of Discrimination and Racism |access-date=5 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214115324/http://imadr.org/geneva/2006/G0610396.pdf |archive-date=14 December 2006}} Surveys conducted in 2017 and 2019 have shown that 40 to nearly 50% of the foreigners who were surveyed have experienced some form of discrimination.{{Cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/social-issues/half-foreign-nationals-tokyo-experience-discrimination-survey-shows/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418140606/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/social-issues/half-foreign-nationals-tokyo-experience-discrimination-survey-shows/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2019|title=Half of foreign nationals in Tokyo experience discrimination, survey shows|date=17 April 2019|work=The Japan Times|access-date=13 December 2019|language=en-US|issn=0447-5763}}{{Cite web|url=https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%20Documents/JPN/INT_CERD_NGO_JPN_31918_E.pdf|title=Joint Civil Society Report on Racial Discrimination in Japan (page 33)|access-date=14 December 2019|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214003330/https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%2520Documents/JPN/INT_CERD_NGO_JPN_31918_E.pdf|url-status=dead}} Another report has also noted differences in how the media and some Japanese treat visitors from the West as compared to those from East Asia, with the latter being viewed much less positively than the former.{{Cite web|url=https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/society/pt20171130025011.html|title=Issues related to the increase in tourists visiting Japan from abroad ('How foreign tourists are portrayed' and 'Acts of hate?' sections)|website=japanpolicyforum.jp|access-date=13 December 2019|archive-date=15 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115230255/https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/society/pt20171130025011.html|url-status=dead}}

Japan accepted just 16 refugees in 1999, while the United States took in 85,010 for resettlement, according to the UNHCR. New Zealand, which is 30 times smaller than Japan, accepted 1,140 refugees in 1999. Just 305 persons were recognized as refugees by Japan from 1981, when Japan ratified the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, to 2002.{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2003_Feb_24/ai_98002254 |title=Japan's refugee policy |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=16 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216094857/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2003_Feb_24/ai_98002254 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/text/ClosedCountry01.html |title=Questioning Japan's 'Closed Country' Policy on Refugees |access-date=17 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413083037/http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/text/ClosedCountry01.html |archive-date=13 April 2015 }} Former Prime Minister Taro Aso called Japan a "one race" nation.{{cite web|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?nn20051018a7_htm=|title=Aso says Japan is nation of 'one race' – The Japan Times Online|date=19 May 2007}}{{dead link|date=November 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} A 2019 Ipsos poll also suggested that Japanese respondents had a relatively lower sympathy for refugees compared to most other countries in the survey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2019-06/World-Refugee-Day-2019-Ipsos.pdf|title=Global attitudes towards refugees (page 5)}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-attitudes-towards-refugees|title=Global attitudes towards refugees|website=Ipsos|language=en|access-date=13 December 2019|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214003259/https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-attitudes-towards-refugees|url-status=dead}}

Sharon Yoon and Yuki Asahina argue that Zaitokukai, a right-wing organization, succeeded in framing Korean minorities as undeserving recipients of Japanese welfare benefits. Even as Zaitokukai declined, the perceptions of a Korean internal threat powerfully influences public fears.Sharon J. Yoon, and Yuki Asahina, "The Rise and Fall of Japan's New Far Right: How Anti-Korean Discourses Went Mainstream." Politics & Society 49.3 (2021): 363–402 [https://www.academia.edu/download/68635831/The_Rise_of_Japan_s_New_Far_Right.pdf online]{{dead link|date=July 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}.

== Malaysia ==

{{Main|Xenophobia in Malaysia|Racism in Malaysia}}

The racial tension between the dominant poor Malay Muslims and the minority wealthier Chinese has long characterized Malaysia. It was a major factor in the separation of Singapore in 1965 to become an independent, primarily Chinese nation. Amy L. Freedman points to the electoral system, the centrality of ethnic parties, gerrymandering, and systematic discrimination against the Chinese in education and jobs as critical factors in xenophobia. Recently the goal of creating a more inclusive national identity has been emphasized.Amy L. Freedman, "The effect of government policy and institutions on Chinese overseas acculturation: The case of Malaysia." Modern Asian Studies 35.2 (2001): 411–440.

In Malaysia, xenophobia occurs regardless of race. Most xenophobia is towards foreign labourers, who normally came from Indonesia, Bangladesh{{cite web|url=https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/02/uproar-over-intake-of-bangladeshi-workers-exposes-xenophobia-in-malaysia/|title=Uproar over intake of Bangladeshi workers exposes rampant xenophobia in Malaysia|website=asiancorrespondent.com|access-date=11 June 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042442/https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/02/uproar-over-intake-of-bangladeshi-workers-exposes-xenophobia-in-malaysia/|url-status=dead}} and Africa.{{cite web|url=http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/08/27/nyt-malaysia-has-xenophobia-towards-africans/|title=NYT: Malaysia has xenophobia towards Africans|access-date=11 June 2017|archive-date=29 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029215257/http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/08/27/nyt-malaysia-has-xenophobia-towards-africans/|url-status=dead}} There is also a significant degree of xenophobia towards neighbouring Singaporeans and Indonesians.

== South Korea ==

{{Main|Racism in South Korea}}

Xenophobia in South Korea has been recognized by scholars and the United Nations as a widespread social problem.{{citation |title=Foreigners or multicultural citizens? Press media's construction of immigrants in South Korea |first=Keumjae |last=Park |journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies |year=2014 |volume=37 |issue=9 |pages=1565–1586 |doi=10.1080/01419870.2012.758860|s2cid=144943847 }} An increase in immigration to South Korea since the 2000s catalyzed more overt expressions of racism, as well as criticism of those expressions. Newspapers have frequently reported on and criticized discrimination against immigrants, in forms such as being paid lower than the minimum wage, having their wages withheld, unsafe work conditions, physical abuse, or general denigration.

After 2010, xenophobia became increasingly prevalent in the widely used social media. Jiyeon Kang reports a common pattern scapegoating dark-skinned migrants by gender, race and class. They are presented as accomplices and beneficiaries of the elite coalition allegedly taking traditional rights away from South Korean male citizens.Jiyeon Kang, "Reconciling progressivism and xenophobia through scapegoating: anti-multiculturalism in South Korea's online forums." Critical Asian Studies 52.1 (2020): 87–108.

In a 2010–2014 World Values Survey, 44.2% of South Koreans reported they would not want an immigrant or foreign worker as a neighbor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp?WAVE=6&COUNTRY=875|title=WVS Database|website=worldvaluessurvey.org}}{{citation |title=Don't ask for fair treatment? A gender analysis of ethnic discrimination, response to discrimination, and self-rated health among marriage migrants in South Korea |first1=Yugyun |last1=Kim |first2=Inseo |last2=Son |first3=Dainn |last3=Wie|display-authors=etal |date=19 July 2016 |journal=International Journal for Equity in Health |volume=15 |issue=1 |page=112 |doi=10.1186/s12939-016-0396-7 |pmid=27430432 |pmc=4949882 |quote=The recent increased influx of immigrants in Korea has ignited racism among Korean natives, which is heightened by economic and cultural nationalism [6]. For example, more than 40 % of Koreans answered that they would not want a foreigner as their neighborhood, based on the recent World Values Survey (2010–2014) [9]. |doi-access=free }} Racist attitudes are more commonly expressed towards immigrants from other Asian countries and Africa, and less so towards European and white North American immigrants who can occasionally receive what has been described as "overly kind treatment".{{citation |title=The end of ethnic nationalism? Changing conceptions of national identity and belonging among young South Koreans |last=Campbell |first=Emma |year=2015 |journal=Nations & Nationalism |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=483–502 |doi=10.1111/nana.12120}} Related discrimination have also been reported with regards to mixed-race children, Chinese Korean, and North Korean immigrants.

== Philippines ==

{{Main|Xenophobia in the Philippines}}

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== Thailand ==

{{Main|Racism in Thailand}}

File:Anti Arab sign in Pattaya Beach Thailand.jpg sign in Pattaya Beach, Thailand]]

There are no laws within the Kingdom of Thailand which criminalize racial discrimination and the use of racist cliches. Unlike neighboring nations which were colonized, Thailand's history as an uncolonized state further shaped its existing laws.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Anti-refugee sentiment has been significant in Thailand, with a 2016 Amnesty International survey indicating that 74% of surveyed Thais do not believe (to varying degrees) that people should be able to take refuge in other countries to escape war or persecution.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ACT3041002016ENGLISH.PDF|title=Refugees Welcome Survey 2016|access-date=4 December 2019|archive-date=4 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204111451/https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ACT3041002016ENGLISH.PDF|url-status=dead}}

=Middle East=

{{Further|Xenophobia and racism in the Middle East}}{{See also|Antisemitism in the Arab world}}

In 2008, a Pew Research Center survey found that negative views concerning Jews were most common in the three predominantly Arab nations which were polled, with 97% of Lebanese having an unfavorable opinion of Jews, 95% of Egyptians and 96% of Jordanians.[http://www.pewglobal.org/files/pdf/262.pdf Unfavorable Views of Jews and Muslims on the increase in Europe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171218070018/http://www.pewglobal.org/files/pdf/262.pdf|date=18 December 2017}} Pew Global Attitudes Research 17 September 2008, page 10

== Egypt ==

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef has denounced what he called "the myth of the Holocaust" in defense of the former-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of it.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4554986.stm "Egyptian Islamists deny Holocaust"], BBC News, 23 December 2005. In an article in October 2000 columnist Adel Hammoda alleged in the state-owned Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram that Jews make Matza from the blood of non-Jewish children (see Blood libel).Al-Ahram (Egypt), 28 October 2000 Mohammed Salmawy, the editor of Al-Ahram Hebdo, "defended the use of old European myths like the blood libel against Jews" in his newspapers.Clark, Kate (10 August 2003). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3136059.stm "Interpreting Egypt's anti-semitic cartoons"], BBC News.

== Jordan ==

Jordan does not allow entry to Jews who have visible signs of Judaism or possess personal religious items. The Jordanian ambassador to Israel replied to a complaint by a religious Jew who was denied entry by stating that security concerns required that travelers who are entering the Hashemite Kingdom should not do so with prayer shawls (Tallit) and phylacteries (Tefillin).{{cite news |title=Jordan denies entry to Israeli with Jewish prayer items |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/jordan-denies-entry-to-israeli-with-jewish-prayer-items-1.279743 |date=10 July 2009 |work=Haaretz |access-date=11 April 2014}} Jordanian authorities state that the policy is to ensure the Jewish tourists' safety.{{cite web |title=Israeli tourists asked to hand over Jewish paraphernalia |url=http://www.eturbonews.com/4337/israeli-tourists-asked-hand-over-jewish-paraphernalia |date=13 August 2008 |publisher=eTurboNews |access-date=23 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211182920/http://www.eturbonews.com/4337/israeli-tourists-asked-hand-over-jewish-paraphernalia |archive-date=11 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}

In July 2009, six Breslov Hasidim were deported after attempting to enter Jordan to visit the tomb of Aaron / Sheikh Harun on Mount Hor, near Petra. The group had taken a ferry from Sinai, Egypt because they understood that Jordanian authorities were making it hard for visible Jews to enter their country from Israel.{{cite web |author=Mendel, Arieh |script-title=he:חסידי ברסלב גורשו מירדן: "הם מאוד מאוכזבים" |url=http://www.haredim.co.il/ViewArticle.aspx?catID=1&itmID=970 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008033754/http://www.haredim.co.il/ViewArticle.aspx?catID=1&itmID=970 |archive-date=8 October 2011 |date=21 July 2009 |publisher=Haredim.co.il |access-date=24 July 2009|language=he}}

== Israel ==

{{See also|Xenophobia in Israel|Racism in Israel|Anti-Arabism in Israel}}

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According to the 2004 U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Israel and the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government had done "little to reduce institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country's Arab citizens."{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41723.htm |title=Israel and the occupied territories |publisher=State.gov |date=28 February 2005 |access-date=22 July 2010}} The 2005 US Department of State report on Israel wrote: "[T]he government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, there were problems in some areas, including... institutional, legal, and societal discrimination against the country's Arab citizens."{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61690.htm |title=Israel and the occupied territories |access-date=1 August 2006 |author=Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor |date=8 March 2006 |work=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – 2005 |publisher=U.S. Department of State}}

The 2010 U.S. State Department Country Report stated that Israeli law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, and the Israeli government effectively enforced these prohibitions.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154463.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110413173255/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154463.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 April 2011 |title=2010 Human Rights Report: Israel and the occupied territories |publisher=State.gov |date=8 April 2011 |access-date=29 May 2012}} Former Likud MK and Minister of Defense Moshe Arens has criticized the treatment of minorities in Israel, saying that they did not bear the full obligation of Israeli citizenship, nor were they extended the full privileges of citizenship.Quoted in {{Cite book |publisher=UPNE |isbn=978-1-58465-327-1 |last=Rebhun |first=Uzi |author2=Chaim Isaac Waxman |title=Jews in Israel: contemporary social and cultural patterns |year=2004 |page=[https://archive.org/details/jewsinisraelcont0000unse/page/472 472] |url=https://archive.org/details/jewsinisraelcont0000unse/page/472 }}

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) published reports which documented racism in Israel, and the 2007 report suggested that anti-Arab racism was increasing in the country. One analysis of the report summarized it thus: "Over two-thirds of Israeli teens believe that Arabs are less intelligent, uncultured and violent.{{cite news|url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3480345,00.html|title=Racism in Israel on the rise|date=12 August 2007|website=Ynetnews|last1=Zino|first1=Aviram}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7136068.stm|title=Israeli anti-Arab racism 'rises'|date=10 December 2007|publisher=BBC}} The Israeli government spokesman responded that the Israeli government was "committed to fighting racism whenever it raises its ugly head and is committed to full equality to all Israeli citizens, irrespective of ethnicity, creed or background, as defined by our declaration of independence". Isi Leibler of the Jerusalem Center for Public affairs argues that Israeli Jews are troubled by "increasingly hostile, even treasonable outbursts by Israeli Arabs against the state" while it is at war with neighboring countries.[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2004/1/2003%20Terrorism%20Review 2003 Terrorism Review]. Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved 16 December 2010. Khaled Diab of The Guardian wrote in 2012 that demonisation was a two-way street, with Palestinians in Israel reportedly holding negative stereotypes of Israelis as devious, violent, cunning and untrustworthy.{{Cite web |last=Khaled Diab |date=19 January 2012 |title=Hacking away at Arab and Israeli stereotypes |url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/hacking-arab-israeli-stereotypes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220420103124/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/hacking-arab-israeli-stereotypes%23comments |archive-date=20 April 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en |access-date=8 May 2022 }}

A 2018 poll by Pew Research Center also suggested there to be particularly widespread anti-refugee sentiment among surveyed Israelis compared to the people from other selected countries. Israeli people also have a long history of discrimination towards Palestinians{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-opposition-to-accepting-refugees-highest-in-west-poll/|title=Israel's opposition to accepting refugees is highest in West — poll|website=The Times of Israel|language=en-US|access-date=4 December 2019}}

== Kuwait ==

In April 2020, an actress said on Kuwaiti TV that migrants should be thrown out "into the desert", amidst reported exploitation of foreign labourers in the country.{{Cite news |last=Hubbard |first=Ben |date=13 April 2020 |title=Coronavirus Fears Terrify and Impoverish Migrants in the Persian Gulf |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/world/middleeast/persian-gulf-migrants-coronavirus.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220507000033/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/world/middleeast/persian-gulf-migrants-coronavirus.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=8 May 2022 }} Reports of Sierra Leonean, Indonesian and Nepalese workers suffering abuse in Kuwait have prompted the 3 countries' governments to ban its citizens from being employed as domestic workers there.{{Cite web |last=Pete Pattisson |date=2 April 2015 |title=Women from Sierra Leone 'sold like slaves' into domestic work in Kuwait |url=http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/apr/02/women-sierra-leone-sold-like-slaves-domestic-work-kuwait |website=The Guardian |language=en}} Expat surveys done by InterNations have ranked the country amongst the most unfriendly for expatriates.{{Cite web |title=Expat Insider 2021: The Year of Uncertainty (page 31) |url=https://cms-internationsgmbh.netdna-ssl.com/sites/default/files/2021-05/InterNations_Expat-Insider-2021_0.pdf |website=InterNations |access-date=8 May 2022 |archive-date=22 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422010136/https://cms-internationsgmbh.netdna-ssl.com/sites/default/files/2021-05/InterNations_Expat-Insider-2021_0.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |date=31 August 2016 |title=World's 10 unfriendliest countries for expats revealed |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/unfriendliest-countries-for-expats-revealed-expatriates-emigration-sweden-denmark-kuwait-a7216316.html |website=The Independent |language=en}}

== Lebanon ==

Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV channel has often been accused of airing antisemitic broadcasts, accusing the Jews/Zionists of conspiring against the Arab world, and frequently airing excerpts from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,{{cite news |last=Sciolino |first=Elaine |author2=Carole Corm |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E7DE1031F93AA35751C1A9629C8B63 |title=A New French Headache: When Is Hate on TV Illegal? |newspaper=The New York Times | date=9 December 2004 |access-date=11 April 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.org/special_reports/protocols/protocols_recycled.asp |title=Anti-Semitic Series on Arab Television: Satellite Network Recycles The Protocols of the Elders of Zion |publisher=Anti-Defamation League |date=9 January 2004 |access-date=11 April 2014 |archive-date=15 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115091803/http://www.adl.org/special_reports/protocols/protocols_recycled.asp |url-status=dead }}[http://www.wiesenthal.com/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=297065 "Urge President Chirac to Block Hezbollah's Antisemitic and Hate TV".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010194739/http://www.wiesenthal.com/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=297065 |date=10 October 2007 }} Simon Wiesenthal Center. 21 May 2008. which the Encyclopædia Britannica describes as a "fraudulent document which served as a pretext and rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century". In another incident, an Al-Manar commentator recently referred to "Zionist attempts to transmit AIDS to Arab countries". Al-Manar officials denied broadcasting any antisemitic incitement and they also stated that their group's position is anti-Israeli, not antisemitic. However, Hezbollah has directed strong rhetoric against both Israel and Jews, and it has cooperated in publishing and distributing outright antisemitic literature. The government of Lebanon has not criticized Hezbollah's continued broadcast of antisemitic material on television.{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/nea/136073.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315152840/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/nea/136073.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 March 2010 |title=2009 Human Rights Report: Lebanon |publisher=State.gov |date=11 March 2010 |access-date=2 July 2011}}

There are also substantial accounts{{Cite web|title=We want justice for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2019/04/lebanon-migrant-domestic-workers-their-house-is-our-prison/|access-date=21 June 2020|publisher=Amnesty International|date=24 April 2019|language=en}} of abuses against migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, notably from Ethiopia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and other countries in Asia and Africa, exacerbated by the Kafala system, or "sponsorship system". Increases in abuse occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web|date=6 March 2020|title=Life for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers worsens amid crisis|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/06/life-lebanons-migrant-domestic-workers-worsens-amid-crisis|access-date=21 June 2020|publisher=Human Rights Watch|language=en}}

== Palestine ==

{{Main|Racism in the Palestinian territories}}

{{See also|Human rights in the Palestinian territories|Antisemitism in the Arab world#Palestinian territories|Antisemitism#Palestinian territories|Demographics of the Palestinian territories}}

Various Palestinian organizations and individuals have been regularly accused of being antisemitic. Howard Gutman believes that much of Muslim hatred of Jews stems from the ongoing Arab–Israeli conflict and that peace would significantly reduce antisemitism.{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4156355,00.html |title=Jew-hate stems from conflict |work=ynet |date=3 December 2011 |access-date=17 June 2015|last1=Gantz |first1=Menachem }}

Anti-US and anti-Israeli sentiment had led some Palestinians to support the 2001 September 11 attacks in New York.{{Cite news |date=11 September 2001 |title=Palestinians Celebrate Here and in Beirut With Gunfire |language=en |work=Haaretz, Reuters |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5385836 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111195827/https://www.haaretz.com/1.5385836 |archive-date=11 November 2020}} In August 2003, senior Hamas official Dr Abd Al-Aziz Al-Rantisi wrote in the Hamas newspaper Al-Risala:{{cite web |url=http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-denialreport.php |title=Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey - 2003 |publisher=David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies |first1=Alex |last1=Grobman |first2=Rafael |last2=Medoff |access-date=27 March 2015 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093917/http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-denialreport.php |archive-date= Apr 2, 2015 }}

It is no longer a secret that the Zionists were behind the Nazis' murder of many Jews, and agreed to it, with the aim of intimidating them and forcing them to immigrate to Palestine.
In August 2009, Hamas refused to allow Palestinian children to learn about the Holocaust, which it called "a lie invented by the Zionists" and referred to Holocaust education as a "war crime".{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/31/1007549/hamas-condemns-un-for-teaching-the-holocaust#When:14:44:00Z |title=Hamas rips U.N. for teaching the Holocaust |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904093310/http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/31/1007549/hamas-condemns-un-for-teaching-the-holocaust |archive-date=4 September 2009 |website=JTA |date=31 August 2009 }} A 2016 Gallup International poll had roughly 74% of Palestinian respondents agreeing there was religious superiority, 78% agreeing there was racial superiority, and 76% agreeing there was cultural superiority. The percentages were among the highest out of 66 nations surveyed.{{Cite web |date=October–December 2016 |title=Global values: religion, race, culture |url=https://www.gallup-international.com/fileadmin/user_upload/surveys/2016/2016_Religion_Race_Culture.pdf |website=Gallup International Association |access-date=8 May 2022 |archive-date=19 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419162130/http://www.gallup-international.com/fileadmin/user_upload/surveys/2016/2016_Religion_Race_Culture.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite news |date=1 June 2017 |title=This Is Where Intolerance Is Highest on Religion, Culture, Race |language=en |work=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-01/this-is-where-intolerance-is-highest-on-religion-culture-race |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220502105927/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-01/this-is-where-intolerance-is-highest-on-religion-culture-race |archive-date=2 May 2022 |access-date=8 May 2022 }}

== Saudi Arabia ==

{{See also|Xenophobia in Saudi Arabia|Antisemitism in Saudi Arabia|Human rights in Saudi Arabia|}}Racism in Saudi Arabia is practiced against labor workers who are foreigners, mostly from developing countries.

Asian maids who work in the country have been victims of racism and other forms of discrimination,{{cite book |first1=James |last1=Donald |author2=Ali Rattansi |title=Race, Culture and Difference |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NZonSikZPcC&pg=PA27 |year=1992 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-8039-8580-3 |page=27}}{{cite web |url=http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11601 |title=Asian maids in Gulf face maltreatment |publisher=Middle East Online |date=10 October 2004 |access-date=31 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617123440/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11601 |archive-date=17 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |first=Rabiya |last=Parekh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2006/04/south_asian_workers_in_saudi.html |title=World Service – World Have Your Say: South Asian workers in Saudi |publisher=BBC |date=4 April 2006 |access-date=22 April 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.0.2720941512 |title=Saudi Arabia: Asian immigrant forced to clean mosques for 'skipping prayers' – Adnkronos Religion |publisher=Adnkronos.com |date=7 April 2003 |access-date=22 April 2011}} foreign workers have been raped, exploited, under- or unpaid, physically abused,{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/13/saudi-arabia-treatment-foreign-workers |date=13 January 2013 |title=Saudi Arabia's treatment of foreign workers under fire after beheading of Sri Lankan maid |last=Chamberlain |first=Gethin |work=The Guardian |access-date=14 January 2013}} overworked and locked in their places of employment. The international organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) describes these conditions as "near-slavery" and attributes them to "deeply rooted gender, religious, and racial discrimination".{{cite web |publisher=Human Rights Watch |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2004/07/13/bad-dreams/exploitation-and-abuse-migrant-workers-saudi-arabia |title='Bad Dreams:' Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia |date=15 July 2004 |access-date=11 May 2022}} In many cases the workers are unwilling to report their employers for fear of losing their jobs or further abuse.

There were several cases of antisemitism in Saudi Arabia and it is common within the country's religious circles. The Saudi Arabian media often attacks Jews in books, in news articles, in its Mosques and with what some describe as antisemitic satire. Saudi Arabian government officials and state religious leaders often promote the idea that Jews are conspiring to take over the entire world; as proof of their claims they publish and frequently cite The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as factual.[http://www.edume.org/reports/10/38.htm CMIP report: The Jews in World History according to the Saudi textbooks] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928005805/http://www.edume.org/reports/10/38.htm |date=28 September 2007 }}. The Danger of World Jewry, by Abdullah al-Tall, pp. 140–141 (Arabic). Hadith and Islamic Culture, Grade 10, (2001) pp. 103–104.{{cite web |url=http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/pdfdocs/KSAtextbooks06.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823125127/http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/pdfdocs/KSAtextbooks06.pdf |archive-date=23 August 2006 |title=Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance | publisher=Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House | year=2006}}

= Europe =

{{See also|Racism in Europe|Antisemitism in Europe|Anti-Romani sentiment}}File:Demonstrace za slušné Česko – demise Andreje Babiše 2.jpg against politicians accused of pro-Russian sympathies, 17 November 2018. The sign reads: "...all Russians...go away from the Czech Republic or die!"]]

A study that ran from 2002 to 2015 mapped the countries in Europe with the highest incidents of racial bias towards black people, based on data from 288,076 white Europeans. It used the Implicit-association test (a reaction-based psychological test designed to measure implicit racial bias). The strongest bias was found in Czech Republic, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Malta, Moldova, Bulgaria, Italy, Slovakia, and Portugal.{{cite web |last1=Waugh |first1=Rob |title=This map shows the most racist countries in Europe (and how Britain ranks) |url=http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/03/this-map-shows-the-most-racist-countries-in-europe-and-how-britain-ranks-6612608/ |website=Metro |date=3 May 2017 |location=UK |access-date=6 May 2017}} A 2017 report by the University of Oslo Center for Research on Extremism tentatively suggests that "individuals of Muslim background stand out among perpetrators of antisemitic violence in Western Europe".{{Cite web|title=Antisemitic Violence in Europe, 2005–2015 Exposure and Perpetrators in France, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Russia|url=http://www.hlsenteret.no/publikasjoner/digitale-hefter/antisemittisk-vold-i-europa_engelsk_endelig-versjon.pdf|access-date=18 May 2021|archive-date=13 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013210540/https://www.hlsenteret.no/publikasjoner/digitale-hefter/antisemittisk-vold-i-europa_engelsk_endelig-versjon.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Negative views of Muslims have varied across different parts of Europe, and Islamophobic hate crimes have been reported across the region.{{cite news |date=6 March 2020 |title=Why Is Europe So Islamophobic? |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/opinion/europe-islamophobia-attacks.html}} A 2017 Chatham House poll of more than 10,000 people in 10 European countries had on average 55% agreeing that all further migration from Muslim-majority countries should be stopped, while 20% disagreed. Majority opposition was found in Poland (71%), Austria (65%), Belgium (64%), Hungary (64%), France (61%), Greece (58%), Germany (53%), and Italy (51%).{{Cite news |title=What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration? |language=en |work=Chatham House |url=https://www.chathamhouse.org/2017/02/what-do-europeans-think-about-muslim-immigration}}

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== Belgium ==

{{Further|Antisemitism in Belgium|1980 Antwerp summer camp attack|Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting}}

There were recorded well over a hundred antisemitic attacks in Belgium in 2009. This was a 100% increase from the year before. The perpetrators were usually young males of immigrant background from the Middle East. In 2009, the Belgian city of Antwerp, often referred to as Europe's last shtetl, experienced a surge in antisemitic violence. Bloeme Evers-Emden, an Amsterdam resident and Auschwitz survivor, was quoted in the newspaper Aftenposten in 2010: "The antisemitism now is even worse than before the Holocaust. The antisemitism has become more violent. Now they are threatening to kill us."{{cite web |author=AV: per kr. aale |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article3584266.ece |title=Hets av jøder er økende i Europa |work=Aftenposten |access-date=29 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411225535/http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article3584266.ece |archive-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}

== France ==

{{Main|Racism in France}}

{{Further|Antisemitism in France}}

In 2004, France experienced rising levels of Islamic antisemitism and acts that were publicized around the world.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3880585.stm Chirac vows to fight race attacks] BBC. 9 July 2004.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3586543.stm |title=Anti-Semitism 'on rise in Europe' |work=BBC News |date=31 March 2004 |access-date=10 April 2014}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/international/26antisemitism.html |work=The New York Times |first=Craig S. |last=Smith |title=Jews in France Feel Sting as Anti-Semitism Surges Among Children of Immigrants |date=26 March 2006 |access-date=10 April 2014}} In 2006, rising levels of antisemitism were recorded in French schools. Reports related to the tensions between the children of North African Muslim immigrants and North African Jewish children. The climax was reached when Ilan Halimi was tortured to death by the so-called "Barbarians gang", led by Youssouf Fofana. In 2007, over 7,000 members of the community petitioned for asylum in the United States, citing antisemitism in France.{{cite news |url=http://jta.org/news/article/2007/03/20/100725/Frenchpetition |title=French Jews petition U.S. for asylum |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency | date=20 March 2007 |access-date=10 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905044711/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2007/03/20/100725/Frenchpetition |archive-date=5 September 2012 }}

In the first half of 2009, an estimated 631 recorded acts of antisemitism took place in France, more than the whole of 2008.[https://web.archive.org/web/20091217075855/http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447430597&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Anti-semitism is making a loud comeback] The Jerusalem Post. 13 December 2009 Speaking to the World Jewish Congress in December 2009, the French Interior Minister Hortefeux described the acts of antisemitism as "a poison to our republic". He also announced that he would appoint a special coordinator for fighting racism and antisemitism.[http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8718 French interior minister says anti-Semitism at an alarming level] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607011253/http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/8718 |date=7 June 2011 }} 14 December 2009

== Germany ==

{{Main|Racism in Germany}}

{{Further|Antisemitism in 21st century Germany}}

The period after Germany's loss of World War I led to the increased espousal of anti-Semitism and other forms of racism in the country's political discourse, for example, emotions which were initially expressed by members of the right-wing Freikorps finally culminated in the ascent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1933. The Nazi Party's racial policy and the Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews and other non-Aryans represented the most explicit racist policies in twentieth century Europe. These laws deprived all Jews (including half-Jews and quarter-Jews) and all other non-Aryans of German citizenship. The official title of Jews became "subjects of the state". At first, the Nuremberg Race Laws only forbade racially mixed sexual relationships and marriages between Aryans and Jews but later they were extended to "Gypsies, Negroes or their bastard offspring".{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Burleigh |title=The Racial State: Germany 1933–1945 |date=7 November 1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-39802-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/racialstate00mich/page/49 49] |url=https://archive.org/details/racialstate00mich/page/49 }} Such interracial relationships were known as "racial pollution" Rassenschande, and they became a criminal and punishable offence under the race laws.{{cite book |first=S. H. |last=Milton |chapter="Gypsies" as social outsiders in Nazi Germany |title=Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany |editor=Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus |year=2001 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-08684-2 |pages=216, 231}} The Nazi racial theory regarded Poles and other Slavic peoples as racially inferior Untermenschen. Nazi Germany's Directive No.1306 stated: "Polishness equals subhumanity. Poles, Jews and gypsies are on the same inferior level."From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939–1941 (1997), by Sheldon Dick ed. Bernd Wegner, p.50

After the 1950s the steady arrival of Turkish workers led to xenophobia.

According to a 2012 survey, 18% of Turks in Germany believe that Jews are inferior human beings.Liljeberg Research International: [https://d171.keyingress.de/multimedia/document/228.pdf Deutsch-Türkische Lebens und Wertewelten 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011112234/https://d171.keyingress.de/multimedia/document/228.pdf |date=11 October 2012 }}, July/August 2012, p. 68Die Welt: [https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article108659406/Tuerkische-Migranten-hoffen-auf-muslimische-Mehrheit.html Türkische Migranten hoffen auf muslimische Mehrheit], 17 August 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012

== Hungary ==

Anti-refugee sentiment has been strong in Hungary,{{Cite web|url=https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/buffett/hungary/hungarian-identity/|title=Hungarian views deeply impacted by country's history|work=Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication|language=en|access-date=4 December 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/9089/hungary-refugees-not-welcome|title=Hungary: 'Refugees not welcome'|date=9 May 2018|website=InfoMigrants|language=en|access-date=4 December 2019}} and Hungarian authorities along the border have been accused of detaining migrants under harsh conditions{{Cite web|url=https://www.boell.de/en/2018/01/03/hungary-2017-detained-refugees-persecuted-ngos-lack-legal-certainty|title=Hungary 2017: Detained refugees, persecuted NGOs, lack of legal certainty {{!}} Heinrich Böll Stiftung|website=Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung|language=en|access-date=4 December 2019}} with some reported instances of beatings and other violence from the guards.{{Cite AV media |title=Refugee crisis: Hungary uses water cannon as people head to Serbian border |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEeW0-gFHKI |type=News |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/OEeW0-gFHKI |publisher=Channel 4 News |access-date=4 December 2019 |via=YouTube |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-hungary-border-police-guards-fence-beating-asylum-seekers-migrants-serbia-push-back-a7610411.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-hungary-border-police-guards-fence-beating-asylum-seekers-migrants-serbia-push-back-a7610411.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Hungarian border guards 'taking selfies with beaten migrants'|date=4 March 2017|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=4 December 2019}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web|url=https://budapestbeacon.com/hungarian-police-accused-of-beating-torturing-refugees/|title=Hungarian police accused of beating, torturing refugees|last=Sentinel|first=-Budapest|date=6 March 2017|website=The Budapest Beacon|language=en-US|access-date=4 December 2019|archive-date=4 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204111451/https://budapestbeacon.com/hungarian-police-accused-of-beating-torturing-refugees/|url-status=dead}} Surveys from Pew Research Center have also suggested that negative views of refugees and Muslims are held by the majority of the country's locals.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/07/11/europeans-fear-wave-of-refugees-will-mean-more-terrorism-fewer-jobs/|title=Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs|date=11 July 2016|website=Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project|language=en-US|access-date=4 December 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/19/a-majority-of-europeans-favor-taking-in-refugees-but-most-disapprove-of-eus-handling-of-the-issue/|title=Europeans support taking in refugees – but not EU's handling of issue|website=Pew Research Center|date=19 September 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=4 December 2019}}

As in other European countries, the Romani people faced disadvantages, including unequal treatment, discrimination, segregation and harassment. Negative stereotypes are often linked to Romani unemployment and reliance on state benefits.{{cite news |url=http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2013-thematic-situation-report-3_en_1.pdf |title=Racism, discrimination, intolerance and extremism: learning from experiences in Greece and Hungary |publisher=European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) |date=December 2013 |access-date=22 February 2014}} In 2008 and 2009 nine attacks took place against Romani in Hungary, resulting in six deaths and multiple injuries. According to the Hungarian curia (supreme court), these murders were motivated by anti-Romani sentiment and sentenced the perpetrators to life imprisonment.

== Italy ==

{{Main|Racism in Italy}}

A new party emerged in the 1980s, Lega Nord. According to Gilda Zazzara, it started with identity-based claims and secessionist proposals for the north to break away from southern Italy. It shifted to xenophobia and the demand that job priority be accorded to native Italian workers.Gilda Zazzara, " 'Italians First': Workers on the Right Amidst Old and New Populisms" International Labor & Working-Class History (2018) Vol. 93, p101-112.

Anti-Romani sentiment in Italy takes the form of hostility, prejudice, discrimination or racism directed at Romani people. There's no reliable data for the total number of Roma people living in Italy, but estimates put it between 140,000 and 170,000. Many national and local political leaders engaged in rhetoric during 2007 and 2008 that maintained that the extraordinary rise in crime at the time was mainly a result of uncontrolled immigration of people of Roma origin from recent European Union member state Romania.Thomas Hammarberg, "Memorandum following the visit to Italy on 19–20 June 2008," the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, CommDH(2008)18, para. 26, 28 July 2008 National and local leaders declared their plans to expel Roma from settlements in and around major cities and to deport illegal immigrants. The mayors of Rome and Milan signed "Security Pacts" in May 2007 that "envisaged the forced eviction of up to 10,000 Romani people".Amnesty International, The State of the World's Human Rights 2008: Italy, POL 10/001/2008, June 2008, pp. 171–172

According to a May 2008 poll 68% of Italians, wanted to see all of the country's approximately 150,000 Gypsies, many of them Italian citizens, expelled.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/17/italy 68% of Italians want Roma expelled – poll], The Guardian, Tom Kington, Rome, 17 May 2008 The survey, published as mobs in Naples burned down Gypsy camps that month, revealed that the majority also wanted all Gypsy camps in Italy to be demolished.

== Netherlands ==

{{Further|Antisemitism in the Netherlands}}

The first example for xenophobic riot in the Netherlands were the riots in Afrikaanderwijk, in which the houses of Turkish people were attacked and windows were smashed.[https://www.jeanneworks.net/files/pub/i_0027/JW_2016_WhatsTheUse_LR.pdf Freehouse: Radicalizing the local]

In early 2012 the Dutch right-wing Party for Freedom established an anti-Slavic (predominantly anti-Polish) and anti-Romani website, where native Dutch people could air their frustration about losing their job because of cheaper workers from Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and other non-Germanic Central and Eastern European countries. This led to commentaries involving hate speech and other racial prejudice mainly against Poles and Roma, but also aimed at other Central and Eastern European ethnic groups.{{Cite web|url=https://euobserver.com/news/115208|title=Dutch far right opens anti-Polish hotline|website=EUobserver|date=9 February 2012 }} According to a 2015 report by the OECD and EU Commission, 37% of young people born in the country with immigrant parents say they had experienced discrimination in their lives.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/23/racism-denmark-an-exchange/|title=Racism in the North: An Exchange|last1=Eakin|first1=Hugh|date=23 June 2016|access-date=14 December 2019|last2=Rose|first2=Flemming|language=en|issn=0028-7504|last3=Mchangama|first3=Jacob|journal=New York Review of Books}}

In the Netherlands, antisemitic incidents, from verbal abuse to violence, are reported, allegedly connected with Islamic youth, mostly boys of Moroccan descent. A phrase made popular during football matches against the so-called Jewish football club Ajax has been adopted by Muslim youth and is frequently heard at pro-Palestinian demonstrations: "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas!" According to the Centre for Information and Documentation on Israel, a pro-Israel lobby group in the Netherlands, in 2009, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Amsterdam, the city that is home to most of the approximately 40,000 Dutch Jews, doubled compared to 2008.Berkhout, Karel. (26 January 2010) [http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2468489.ece/Anti-Semitism_on_the_rise_in_Amsterdam "Anti-Semitism on the rise in Amsterdam"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302092941/http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2468489.ece/Anti-Semitism_on_the_rise_in_Amsterdam |date=2 March 2010 }}. NRC Handelsblad. Retrieved 1 June 2012.

== Norway ==

{{Further|Antisemitism in Norway}}

In 2010, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation after one year of research, revealed that antisemitism was common among Norwegian Muslims. Teachers at schools with large shares of Muslims revealed that Muslim students often "praise or admire Adolf Hitler for his killing of Jews", that "Jew-hate is legitimate within vast groups of Muslim students," and "Muslims laugh or command [teachers] to stop when trying to educate about the Holocaust." Additionally that "while some students might protest when some express support for terrorism, none object when students express hate of Jews" and that it says in "the Quran that you shall kill Jews, all true Muslims hate Jews." Most of these students were said to be born and raised in Norway. One Jewish father also told that his child after school had been taken by a Muslim mob (though managed to escape), reportedly "to be taken out to the forest and hanged because he was a Jew".{{cite news |publisher=NRK |title=Nett-TV: Lørdagsrevyen 13.03.10 Jødiske barn blir hetset |date=13 March 2010 |url=https://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/205057/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317183545/https://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/205057/ |archive-date=17 March 2010 |url-status=dead |language=no |access-date=12 June 2018}}

== Russia ==

{{Main|Xenophobia in Russia}}

{{further|History of the Jews in the Soviet Union|History of the Jews in Russia}}

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Lien Verpoest explores the era of the Napoleonic wars to identify the formation of conservative ideas ranging from traditionalism to ardent patriotism and xenophobia.Lien Verpoest, "An Enlightened path towards conservatism: critical junctures and changing elite perceptions in early nineteenth-century Russia." European Review of History 24.5 (2017): 704–731 [https://lirias.kuleuven.be/retrieve/500034 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104213110/https://lirias.kuleuven.be/retrieve/500034 |date=4 November 2021 }}. Conservatives generally controlled Russia in the 19th century, and imposed xenophobia in education and the academy. In the late 19th century, especially after nationalistic uprisings in Poland in the 1860s, the government displayed xenophobia in its hostility toward ethnic minorities that did not speak Russian. The decision was to reduce the use of other languages, and insist on Russification.A. V. Astakhova, "Xenophobia in the Public and Pedagogical Thought of the Russian Empire of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Pre-Soviet Period)." Russian Social Science Review 62.1–3 (2021): 16–22.

By the beginning of the 20th century, most European Jews lived in the so-called Pale of Settlement, the Western frontier of the Russian Empire consisting generally of the modern-day countries of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and neighboring regions. Many pogroms accompanied the Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War, an estimated 70,000 to 250,000 civilian Jews were killed in the atrocities throughout the former Russian Empire; the number of Jewish orphans exceeded 300,000.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-215022/anti-Semitism |title=anti-Semitism |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=17 June 2015}}Hilary L. Rubinstein, Daniel C. Cohn-Sherbok, Abraham J. Edelheit, William D. Rubinstein, The Jews in the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2002.

During the civil war era (1917–1922) both the Bolsheviks and the Whites employed nationalism and xenophobia as weapons to delegitimise the opposition.Liudmila G. Novikova, "Red Patriots against White Patriots: Contesting Patriotism in the Civil War in North Russia." Europe-Asia Studies 71.2 (2019): 183–202.

After World War II official national policy was to bring in students from Communist countries in East Europe and Asia for advanced training in Communist leadership roles. These students encountered severe xenophobia on campus. They survived by sticking together, but developed a hostility toward the Soviet leadership.Benjamin Tromly, "Brother or other? East European students in Soviet higher education establishments, 1948–1956." European History Quarterly 44.1 (2014): 80–102. [https://www.academia.edu/download/44216243/80.full.pdf online]{{dead link|date=July 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Even after the fall of Communism foreign students faced hostility on campus.Alexander Larin, "Students in Russia (Based on materials of sociological survey)." Far Eastern Affairs (2009) 37#2 pp 114–137

In the 2000s, "skinheads" were especially visible in attacking anything foreign.Peter Worger, "A mad crowd: Skinhead youth and the rise of nationalism in post-communist Russia." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 45.3–4 (2012): 269–278. Racism against both the Russian citizens (peoples of the Caucasus, indigenous peoples of Siberia and Russian Far East, etc.) and non-Russian citizens of Africans, Central Asians, South Asians(Indians,Pakistanis,etc), East Asians (Vietnamese, Chinese, etc.) and Europeans (Ukrainians, etc.) became a significant factor.{{cite web |url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=726 |title=Racist Violence, Rhetoric Plague Russia |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018174645/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=726 |archive-date=18 October 2009 |url-status=dead }}

Using surveys from 1996, 2004, and 2012, Hannah S. Chapman, et al. reports a steady increase in Russians' negative attitudes toward seven outgroups. Muscovites especially became more xenophobic.Hannah S. Chapman, et al. "Xenophobia on the rise? Temporal and regional trends in xenophobic attitudes in Russia." Comparative Politics 50.3 (2018): 381–394. In 2016, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported that "Researchers who track xenophobia in Russia have recorded an "impressive" decrease in hate crimes as the authorities appear to have stepped up pressure on far-right groups".{{cite news |title=Hate Crimes Said Down In Russia As Kremlin Cracks Down On Nationalist Critics |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sova-hate-crimes-down-nationalist-crackdown/27562759.html |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) |date=19 February 2016}} David Barry uses surveys to investigate the particularistic and xenophobic belief that all citizens should join Russia's dominant Orthodox religion. It is widespread among ethnic Russians and is increasing.David Barry, "Ethnodoxy, national exceptionalism, and xenophobia: a case study of contemporary Russia." National Identities 21.3 (2019): 223–239.

A 2016 GlobeScan/BBC World Service poll found that 79% of Russian respondents disapproved of accepting Syrian refugees, the highest percentage out of 18 countries surveyed.{{Cite news |date=28 April 2016 |title=Identity 2016: 'Global citizenship' rising, poll suggests |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211223163742/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904%23comments |archive-date=23 December 2021 |access-date=8 May 2022 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=27 April 2016 |title=Global Citizenship A Growing Sentiment Among Citizens Of Emerging Economies: Global Poll |url=https://globescan.com/2016/04/27/global-citizenship-a-growing-sentiment-among-citizens-of-emerging-economies-global-poll/ |website=GlobeScan |language=en-US}}

== Sweden ==

{{Further|Antisemitism in Sweden}}

A government study in 2006 estimated that 5% of the total adult population and 39% of adult Muslims "harbour systematic antisemitic views".Henrik Bachner and Jonas Ring. {{cite web |url=http://intolerans.levandehistoria.se/article/article_docs/antisemitism_english.pdf |title=Antisemitic images and attitudes in Sweden |access-date=21 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221140257/http://intolerans.levandehistoria.se/article/article_docs/antisemitism_english.pdf |archive-date=21 February 2007 }}. levandehistoria.se The former prime minister Göran Persson described these results as "surprising and terrifying". However, the rabbi of Stockholm's Orthodox Jewish community, Meir Horden, said, "It's not true to say that the Swedes are antisemitic. Some of them are hostile to Israel because they support the weak side, which they perceive the Palestinians to be."[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/922248.html Anti-Semitism, in Sweden? Depends who you're asking] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418045705/http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/922248.html |date=18 April 2009 }}, Haaretz, 9 November 2007.

In March 2010, Fredrik Sieradzk told Die Presse, an Austrian Internet publication, that Jews are being "harassed and physically attacked" by "people from the Middle East", although he added that only a small number of Malmö's 40,000 Muslims "exhibit hatred of Jews". Sieradzk also stated that approximately 30 Jewish families have emigrated from Malmö to Israel in the past year, specifically to escape from harassment. Also in March, the Swedish newspaper Skånska Dagbladet reported that attacks on Jews in Malmö totaled 79 in 2009, about twice as many as the previous year, according to police statistics.[http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/03/22/1011279/report-anti-semitic-attacks-in-rise-in-scandanavia Report: Anti-Semitic attacks rising in Scandinavia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325205944/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/03/22/1011279/report-anti-semitic-attacks-in-rise-in-scandanavia |date=25 March 2010 }}, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), 22 March 2010. In December 2010, the Jewish human rights organization Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a travel advisory concerning Sweden, advising Jews to express "extreme caution" when visiting the southern parts of the country due to an increase in verbal and physical harassment of Jewish citizens by Muslims in the city of Malmö.[http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441467&ct=8971903 Simon Wiesenthal Center to Issue Travel Advisory for Sweden – Officials Confer With Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask | Simon Wiesenthal Center] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218192040/http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441467&ct=8971903 |date=18 December 2010 }}. Wiesenthal.com (14 December 2010). Retrieved 1 June 2012.

== Switzerland ==

{{see also|Immigration to Switzerland#Racism|Migration_background#Switzerland|l1=Racism in Switzerland|label 2=Migration background in Switzerland}}

Swiss "Confederation Commission Against Racism" which is part of the Swiss "Federal Department of Home Affairs"[http://www.edi.admin.ch/] published a 2004 report, Black People in Switzerland: A Life between Integration and Discrimination{{cite web|url=http://www.edi.admin.ch/ekr/dokumentation/shop/00019/00142/index.html?lang=de |title=Schwarze Menschen in der Schweiz. Ein Leben zwischen Integration und Diskriminierung |access-date=12 February 2008 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050311063519/http://www.edi.admin.ch/ekr/dokumentation/shop/00019/00142/index.html?lang=de |archive-date=11 March 2005 }}. edi.admin.ch (2004) (published in German, French, and Italian only). According to this report, discrimination based on skin colour in Switzerland is not exceptional, and affects immigrants decades after their immigration.

Swiss People's Party claims that Swiss communities have a democratic right to decide who can or cannot be Swiss. In addition, the report said "Official statements and political campaigns that present immigrants from the EU in a favourable light and immigrants from elsewhere in a bad light must stop", according to the Swiss Federal Statistics Office in 2006, 85.5% of the foreign residents in Switzerland are European.{{cite web |url=http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/fr/index/themen/01/07/blank/data/01.html |title=Statistique suisse – Population étrangère – Aperçu général |publisher=Bfs.admin.ch |date=3 May 2012 |access-date=29 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608021414/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/fr/index/themen/01/07/blank/data/01.html |archive-date=8 June 2012 |url-status=dead }} The United Nations special rapporteur on racism, Doudou Diène, has observed that Switzerland suffers from racism, discrimination and xenophobia. The UN envoy explained that although the Swiss authorities recognised the existence of racism and xenophobia, they did not view the problem as being serious. Diène pointed out that representatives of minority communities said they experienced serious racism and discrimination, notably for access to public services (e.g. health care), employment and lodging.{{cite web |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/UN_envoy_calls_racism_in_Switzerland_a_reality.html?siteSect=105&sid=6382785&cKey=1137401626000&ty=st |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115201031/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/UN_envoy_calls_racism_in_Switzerland_a_reality.html?siteSect=105&sid=6382785&cKey=1137401626000&ty=st |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 January 2013 |title=UN envoy calls racism in Switzerland a reality- swissinfo |publisher=Swissinfo.ch |date=14 January 2006 |access-date=29 May 2012 }}{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6980766.stm | work=BBC News | first=Imogen | last=Foulkes | title=Swiss row over black sheep poster | date=6 September 2007}}

The 2009 Swiss minaret referendum banned the construction of new minarets—towers traditionally attached to mosques—by a 57 to 43 popular vote of the country. In the 2021 Swiss referendums, the electorate banned the wearing of a full face covering, which some Orthodox Muslim women wear.

== Ukraine ==

{{Main|Racism and discrimination in Ukraine}}

Israel's Antisemitism Report for 2017 stated that "A striking exception in the trend of decrease in antisemitic incidents in Eastern Europe was Ukraine, where the number of recorded antisemitic attacks was doubled from last year and surpassed the tally for all the incidents reported throughout the entire region combined."{{cite news |title=Report 2017: Ukraine had more antisemitic cases than all former USSR countries combined |url=https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/Report-Ukraine-had-more-antisemitic-incidents-than-all-former-Soviet-countries-combined-540096 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=29 January 2018}} Ukrainian state historian, Vladimir Vyatrovich dismissed the Israeli report as anti-Ukrainian propaganda and a researcher of antisemitism from Ukraine, Vyacheslav Likhachev said the Israeli report was flawed and amateurish.

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==United Kingdom==

{{See also|Racism in the United Kingdom|Islamophobia in the United Kingdom}}

The extent and the targets of xenophobic attitudes in the United Kingdom have varied over time. It has resulted in cases of discrimination, riots and racially motivated murders. Racism and Xenophobia were mitigated by the attitudes and norms of the British class system during the 19th century, in which race and nationality mattered less than social distinction: a black African tribal chief was unquestionably superior to a white English costermonger.{{Cite journal |last=Malik |first=Kenan |date=7 May 2001 |title=Why the Victorians were colour blind. In the 19th century, race mattered far less than social distinction: A West African tribal chief was unquestionably superior to an East End costermonger |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/node/153394 |url-status=dead |journal=New Statesman |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816053533/https://www.newstatesman.com/node/153394 |archive-date=16 August 2021 |access-date=2 October 2021}} Use of the word "racism" became more widespread after 1936, although the term "race hatred" was used in the late 1920s by sociologist Frederick Hertz. Laws, including the Race Relations Act 1965, were passed in the 1960s that specifically prohibited racial discrimination.J. Brown, [http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8360/CBP-8360.pdf An early history of British race relations legislation] (09/07/18). House of Commons Library, Briefing Paper, Number 8360.

At the 1517 Evil May Day riots in London, protestors attacked the prominence of foreigners in London wool and cloth businesses;Derek Wilson, "Evil May Day 1517: Foreign traders were attracted to the City of London by England's prosperous trade in wool and cloth. They were not always made welcome." History Today (June 2016) 67#6 pp 66–71{{Cite web |last1=Magazine |first1=Smithsonian |last2=Boissoneault |first2=Lorraine |title=On Evil May Day, Londoners Rioted Over Foreigners Stealing Their Jobs |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/evil-may-day-1517-london-riots-over-foreigners-180963090/ |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}} historians have called the event xenophobic.{{Cite journal |last=Waddell |first=Brodie |date=2021-08-12 |title=The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htab024 |journal=Historical Research |volume=94 |issue=266 |pages=716–735 |doi=10.1093/hisres/htab024 |issn=0950-3471}} Xenophobia in popular literature targeted Germans in the early 20th centuries, based on fears of militarism and espionage.Donald Gillin, "China and the Foreigner, 1911 to 1950." South Atlantic Quarterly 58 (1969): 208–219.

According to scholar Julia Lovell, there has been a history of sinophobia dating back to the early 20th century, propagated by writers like Charles Dickens, which has endured to the present day with current media depictions of China.{{Cite web |last=Julia Lovell |date=30 October 2014 |title=The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia by Christopher Frayling – review |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/30/yellow-peril-dr-fu-manchu-rise-of-chinaphobia-christopher-frayling-review |website=The Guardian |language=en}}

Racism has been observed as having a correlation between factors such as levels of unemployment and immigration in an area. Some studies suggest Brexit led to a rise in racist incidents, where locals became hostile to foreigners.{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/1369183X.2018.1451308| title=Racism and xenophobia experienced by Polish migrants in the UK before and after Brexit vote| journal=Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies| volume=45| pages=61–77| year=2019| last1=Rzepnikowska| first1=Alina| issue=1| doi-access=free}}

Studies published in 2014 and 2015 suggested that racism was on the rise in the UK, with more than one third of those polled admitting they were racially prejudiced.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27599401|title=One third 'admit racial prejudice'|date=28 May 2014|work=BBC News}}{{needs update|date=July 2021}} However a 2019 EU survey, Being Black in the EU, ranked the UK as the least racist in the 12 Western European countries surveyed.{{Cite web | url=https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2019-being-black-in-the-eu-summary_en.pdf | title=Being Black in the EU Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey|publisher=FRA}}

Sectarianism between Ulster Protestants and Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland has been called a form of racism by some international bodies.[https://www.equalityni.org/ECNI/media/ECNI/Consultation%20Responses/2020/DoJ-HateCrimeLawReview.pdf Hate Crime Legislation in Northern Ireland, Independent Review]. Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, April 2020. p.53 It has resulted in widespread discrimination, segregation and serious violence, especially during partition and the Troubles.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

During the acrimonious Brexit debate, xenophobia increased in London, especially against French living in the city.Saskia Huc-Hepher, "'Sometimes there's racism towards the French here': xenophobic microaggressions in pre-2016 London as articulations of symbolic violence." National Identities 23.1 (2021): 15–39 [https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/download/758e8d0b5939f6330f53b1a88a36b6ecc3a7e15a2e2ff8bd4767a84bc9e85651/198390/Xenophobic%20Microaggressions%20in%20Pre-2016%20London_Article_Clean_May2019.pdf online].

= Africa =

{{further|Slavery in modern Africa}}

== Ivory Coast ==

Ivory Coast has an history of ethnic tribal hatred and religious intolerance. In addition to the many victims among the various tribes of the northern and southern regions of the country that have perished in the ongoing conflict, white foreigners residing or visiting Ivory Coast have also been subjected to violent attacks. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, the Ivory Coast government is guilty of fanning ethnic hatred for its own political ends.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/Africa/1932930.stm Ivory Coast "fanning ethnic hatred"] BBC News. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060529154708/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1932930.stm |date=29 May 2006 }}

In 2004, the Young Patriots of Abidjan, a strongly nationalist organisation, rallied by the state media, plundered possessions of foreign nationals in Abidjan. Calls for violence against whites and non-Ivorians were broadcast on national radio and TV after the Young Patriots seized control of its offices. Rapes, beatings, and murders of persons of European and Lebanese descent followed. Thousands of expatriates and white or ethnic Lebanese Ivorians fled the country. The attacks drew international condemnation.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/19/wapp19.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/19/ixnewstop.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113163822/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F11%2F19%2Fwapp19.xml&sSheet=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F11%2F19%2Fixnewstop.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 November 2007 |title=News |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 June 2015 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1242699.htm |title=Europeans flee Ivory Coast violence. 13 November 2004. ABC News Online |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=12 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090324232450/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1242699.htm |archive-date=24 March 2009 |url-status=dead }}

== Mauritania ==

{{Main|Slavery in Mauritania}}

Slavery in Mauritania persists despite its abolition in 1980 and mostly affects the descendants of black Africans abducted into slavery who now live in Mauritania as "black Moors" or haratin and who partially still serve the "white Moors", or bidhan, as slaves. The practice of slavery in Mauritania is most dominant within the traditional upper class of the Moors. For centuries, the haratin lower class, mostly poor black Africans living in rural areas, have been considered natural slaves by these Moors. Social attitudes have changed among most urban Moors, but in rural areas, the ancient divide remains.{{cite web |url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18334379.htm |title=Thomson Reuters Foundation |publisher=Thomson Reuters Foundation |access-date=17 June 2015}}

== Niger ==

In October 2006, Niger announced that it would deport to Chad the "Diffa Arabs", Arabs living in the Diffa region of eastern Niger.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6087048.stm |title=Africa – Niger starts mass Arab expulsions |access-date=17 June 2015}} Their population numbered about 150,000.{{cite web |url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25138454.htm |title=Thomson Reuters Foundation |publisher=Thomson Reuters Foundation |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=10 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110112313/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25138454.htm |url-status=dead }} While the government was rounding up Arabs in preparation for the deportation, two girls died, reportedly after fleeing government forces, and three women suffered miscarriages. Niger's government eventually suspended their controversial decision to deport the Arabs.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6081416.stm |title=Africa – Niger's Arabs to fight expulsion |access-date=17 June 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=469638881e |title=Refworld – The Leader in Refugee Decision Support |author=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |work=Refworld |access-date=17 June 2015}}

== South Africa ==

{{Main|Xenophobia in South Africa}}

File:People's March Anti Xenophobia.jpg, Johannesburg, 23 April 2015]]

Xenophobia in South Africa has been present in both the apartheid and post–apartheid eras. Hostility between the British and Boers exacerbated by the Second Boer War led to rebellion by poor Afrikaners who looted British-owned shops.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blgjhkGD0vgC |title=The Afrikaners: Biography of a People |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers |author=Giliomee, Hermann |year=2003 |page=383 |isbn=978-1-85065-714-9}} South Africa also passed numerous acts intended to keep out Indians, such as the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, which provided for the exclusion of "undesirables", a group of people that included Indians. This effectively halted Indian immigration. The Township Franchise Ordinance of 1924 was intended to "deprive Indians of municipal franchise".{{cite web |url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/politics-and-society/anti-indian-legislation-1800s-1959 |title=Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s – 1959 |work=South African History Online |date=21 March 2011 |access-date=27 June 2016}} Xenophobic attitudes toward the Chinese have also been present, sometimes in the form of robberies or hijackings,{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/africa/940619/chinese-traders-changed-south-africa-now-theyre-leaving/|title=Chinese migrants have changed the face of South Africa. Now they're leaving.|last=Kuo|first=Lily|website=Quartz Africa|date=30 April 2017 |language=en|access-date=4 December 2019}} and a hate speech case in 2018 was put to court the year later with 11 offenders on trial.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-03-14-hate-speech-case-a-message-about-racism-discrimination/|title=ANTI-CHINESE SENTIMENT: Hate speech case a message about racism, discrimination|last=Ho|first=Ufrieda|website=Daily Maverick|date=14 March 2019|language=en|access-date=4 December 2019}}

In 1994 and 1995, gangs of armed youth destroyed the homes of foreign nationals living in Johannesburg, demanding that the police work to repatriate them to their home countries.{{cite web |url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/xenophobic-violence-democratic-south-africa |title=Xenophobic violence in democratic South Africa |work=South Africa History Online |access-date=29 June 2016}}

In 2008, a widely documented spate of xenophobic attacks occurred in Johannesburg.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/world/africa/20safrica.html |title=South Africans Take Out Rage on Immigrants |work=The New York Times |date=20 May 2008 |access-date=29 June 2016}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/20/zimbabwe.southafrica |title=Thousands seek sanctuary as South Africans turn on refugees |work=The Guardian |date=20 May 2008 |access-date=29 June 2016}}{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7407914.stm |title=Thousands flee S Africa attacks |work=BBC News |date=19 May 2008 |access-date=29 June 2016}} It is estimated that tens of thousands of migrants were displaced; property, businesses and homes were widely looted.{{cite news |url=http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-05-28-analysis-the-ugly-truth-behind-sas-xenophobic-violence/ |title=Analysis: The ugly truth behind SA's xenophobic violence |work=Daily Maverick |date=28 May 2013 |access-date=29 June 2016}} The death toll after the attack stood at 56.

In 2015, another widely documented series of xenophobic attacks occurred in South Africa, mostly against migrant Zimbabweans.{{cite news |url=http://www.chronicle.co.zw/xenophobia-death-toll-climbs-to-7/ |title=Xenophobia death toll climbs to 7 |work=The Chronicle |date=20 April 2015 |access-date=30 June 2016 |author=Kazunga, Oliver}} This followed remarks by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu stating that the migrants should "pack their bags and leave".{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/deaths-south-africa-mobs-target-foreigners-150415063058933.html |title=Deaths in South Africa as mobs target foreigners |publisher=Al Jazeera |date=15 April 2015 |access-date=30 June 2016}} As of 20 April 2015, 7 people had died and more than 2000 foreigners had been displaced.

Following the riots and murders of other Africans from 2008 and 2015, violence again broke out in 2019.{{cite news |title=Xenophobic violence flares in South Africa |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/09/14/xenophobic-violence-flares-in-south-africa |access-date=13 September 2019 |newspaper=The Economist |date=14 September 2019 |quote=Dozens of people were killed in anti-foreigner riots in 2008 and 2015. But the most recent outbreak of violence shines a particularly harsh light on the rabble-rousing of South African politicians, some of whom have blamed migrants for supposedly taking jobs from locals and committing crimes.}}

== Sudan ==

{{Main|Racism in Sudan}}

{{See also|War in Darfur|South Sudan|Slavery in Sudan}}

In the Sudan, black African captives in the civil war were often enslaved, and female prisoners were often abused sexually,{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/30/wdarf30.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/30/ixworld.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051203160903/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F05%2F30%2Fwdarf30.xml&sSheet=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F05%2F30%2Fixworld.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2005 |title=News |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 June 2015 }} with their Arab captors claiming that Islamic law grants them permission.{{Cite web|url=http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/islamandslavery.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012161707/http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/islamandslavery.html|url-status=dead|title=Islam and Slavery|archive-date=12 October 2007}} According to CBS News, slaves have been sold for US$50 apiece.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/curse-of-slavery-haunts-sudan/ Curse Of Slavery Haunts Sudan] CBS News. 25 January 1998 In September 2000, the U.S. State Department alleged that "the Sudanese government's support of slavery and its continued military action which has resulted in numerous deaths are due in part to the victims' religious beliefs."[http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/09/05/state.dept.religion/index.html U.S. State Department report says 'religious intolerance remains far too common' around world. September 6, 2000] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923220548/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/09/05/state.dept.religion/index.html |date=23 September 2008 }} CNN US News Jok Madut Jok, professor of history at Loyola Marymount University, states that the abduction of women and children of the south is slavery by any definition. The government of Sudan insists that the whole matter is no more than the traditional tribal feuding over resources.Jok Madut Jok (2001), p.3

== Uganda ==

{{main|Expulsion of Asians from Uganda}}

Former British colonies in Sub-Saharan Africa have many citizens of South Asian descent. They were brought by the British Empire from British India to do clerical work in imperial service.{{cite journal | doi=10.2307/1166488 | jstor=1166488 | title=General Amin and the Indian Exodus from Uganda | last1=Patel | first1=Hasu H. | journal=Issue: A Journal of Opinion | year=1972 | volume=2 | issue=4 | pages=12–22 }} The most prominent case of anti-Indian racism was the ethnic cleansing of the Indian (called Asian) minority in Uganda by the strongman dictator and human rights violator Idi Amin.

= Oceania =

== Australia ==

{{Main|Racism in Australia}}

File:1910 White Australia badge.png, comprising Australian-born whites.{{cite web |url=http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/culture/social/display/31785-australian-natives-association-centenary |title=Australian Natives Association Centenary – Monument Australia |website=monumentaustralia.org.au |access-date=22 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701191748/http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/culture/social/display/31785-australian-natives-association-centenary |archive-date=1 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}See [http://museumvictoria.com.au/learning-federation/white-australia/medal---australia-for-australians/ Museum Victoria description] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105150237/http://museumvictoria.com.au/learning-federation/white-australia/medal---australia-for-australians/ |date=5 January 2016 }}]]

The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (White Australia policy) effectively barred people of non-European descent from immigrating to Australia.F. S. Stevens, Racism: The Australian Experience- A study of Race Prejudice in Australia, Vol. 1: Prejudice and Xenophobia (1971). There was never any specific policy titled "White Australia." The term was invented later to encapsulate a collection of policies that were designed to exclude people from Asia (particularly China) and the Pacific Islands (particularly Melanesia) from immigrating to Australia.Myra Willard, History of the White Australia policy to 1920 (Psychology Press, 1967) pp.1–7.N. B. Nairn, "A Survey of the History of the White Australia Policy in the 19th Century," The Australian Quarterly 28#3 (1956), pp. 16-31 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/41317792 online]

The Menzies and Holt governments effectively dismantled the policies between 1949 and 1966 and the Whitlam government passed laws to ensure that race would be totally disregarded as a component for immigration to Australia in 1973.{{cite web |url=http://www.border.gov.au/about/corporate/information/fact-sheets/08abolition |title=Fact Sheet – Abolition of the 'White Australia' Policy |work=Australian Immigration |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia, National Communications Branch, Department of Immigration and Citizenship |access-date=27 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919131355/http://www.border.gov.au/about/corporate/information/fact-sheets/08abolition |archive-date=19 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}

The 2005 Cronulla riots were a series of race riots and outbreaks of mob violence in Sydney's southern suburb Cronulla which resulted from strained relations between Anglo-Celtic and (predominantly Muslim) Lebanese Australians. Travel warnings for Australia were issued by some countries but were later removed.{{Cite book |title=Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood |last=Hogan |first=Jackie |publisher=Routledge |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-134-17406-5 |pages=152–153}} In December 2005, a fight broke out between a group of volunteer surf lifesavers and Lebanese youth. These incidents were considered to be a key factor in a racially motivated confrontation the following weekend.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/ep38cronulla1.pdf |title=Strike Force Neil, Cronulla Riots, Review of the Police Response Media Component Volume 1 of 4 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=3 October 2012 |format=PDF-19.4 Mb |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110235157/http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/ep38cronulla1.pdf |archive-date=10 November 2012 |url-status=dead }} Violence spread to other southern suburbs of Sydney, where more assaults occurred, including two stabbings and attacks on ambulances and police officers.{{cite episode |title=Riot and Revenge |date=13 March 2006 |credits=Liz Jackson (presenter) |transcript=Transcript |transcript-url=http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1590953.htm |url=http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1590953.htm |series=Four Corners |series-link=Four Corners (Australian TV program) |network=ABC |season=2006 |access-date=25 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102055516/http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1588360.htm |archive-date=2 January 2010 |url-status=dead }}

On 30 May 2009, Indian students protested against what they claimed were racist attacks, blocking streets in central Melbourne. Thousands of students gathered outside the Royal Melbourne Hospital where one of the victims was admitted.{{cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/indians-abroad/18-Indians-detained-for-breaching-Australia-peace-rally/articleshow/4602328.cms |title=18 Indians detained for breaching Australia peace rally |work=The Times of India |date=1 June 2009}} In light of this event, the Australian Government started a Helpline for Indian students to report such incidents.{{cite web |last=Topsfield |first=Jewel |title=Helpline thrown to Indian students |website=The Age |date=11 May 2009 |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/helpline-thrown-to-indian-students-20090511-b0mt.html |access-date=11 June 2018}} The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, termed these attacks "disturbing" and called for Australia to investigate the matters further.{{cite web |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_un-asks-australia-to-investigate-root-cause-of-attacks-on-indian_1355539 |title=UN asks Australia to investigate 'root cause' of attacks on Indian |work=dna |access-date=24 January 2015}}

==See also==

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Further reading

  • {{cite web | last=O'Neill | first=Claire | title=The "Othering" of Disease: Xenophobia During Past Pandemics | website=The Wiley Network | publication-date=September 3, 2020| url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/network/education/instructors/teaching-strategies/the-othering-of-disease-xenophobia-during-past-pandemics}}
  • Akinola, Adeoye O. ed. The Political Economy of Xenophobia in Africa (Springer, 2018) 128 pp. {{ISBN?}}
  • Auestad, Lene, ed. Nationalism and the Body Politic: Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia. (Karnac Books, 2013). {{ISBN?}}
  • Bernasconi, Robert. "Where is xenophobia in the fight against racism?." Critical Philosophy of Race 2.1 (2014): 5–19. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/critphilrace.2.1.0005 online]
  • Bordeau, Jamie. Xenophobia (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2009). global. {{ISBN?}}
  • Dovido, John F., Kerry Kawakami, and Kelly R. Beach. "Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: Examination of the Relationship between Measures of Intergroup Bias." in Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Processes ed by R. Brown and S. Gaertner, (Blackwell, 2003) pp. 175–197.
  • {{cite book | last=Cantle | first=Ted | chapter=Prejudice, Discrimination and the 'Fear of Difference' | title=Community Cohesion | pages=91–115 | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan | publication-place=London, UK | publication-date=2005 | doi=10.1057/9780230508712_4 | isbn=978-0-230-50871-2}}
  • Frayling, Christopher/ The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia (2014); role of popular culture in promoting xenophobia against Chinese. [https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Peril-Manchu-Rise-Chinaphobia/dp/0500252076/ excerpt]
  • Gray, Christopher J. "Cultivating citizenship through xenophobia in Gabon, 1960–1995." Africa today 45.3/4 (1998): 389–409 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187235 online]
  • Harrison, Faye V. Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights (2005) [https://www.amazon.com/Resisting-Racism-Xenophobia-Global-Perspectives/dp/0759104816/ excerpt]
  • Hjerm, Mikael. "Education, xenophobia and nationalism: A comparative analysis." Journal of ethnic and Migration Studies 27.1 (2001): 37–60. [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mikael-Hjerm/publication/248979138_Education_Xenophobia_and_Nationalism_A_Comparative_Analysis/links/0f31752dfebb54084d000000/Education-Xenophobia-and-Nationalism-A-Comparative-Analysis.pdf online]
  • Neocosmos, Michael. From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners': Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa, Citizenship and Nationalism, Identity and Politics (2010). {{ISBN?}}
  • Nyamnjoh, Francis B. Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (Zed, 2006) {{ISBN?}}
  • Quillian, Lincoln. "New approaches to understanding racial prejudice and discrimination." Annual Review of Sociology 32 (2006): 299–328. [https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123132 New Approaches to Understanding Racial Prejudice and Discrimination]
  • Rydgren, Jens. "The logic of xenophobia." Rationality and society 16.2 (2004): 123–148.
  • Schlueter, Elmar, Anu Masso, and Eldad Davidov. "What factors explain anti-Muslim prejudice? An assessment of the effects of Muslim population size, institutional characteristics and immigration-related media claims." Journal of ethnic and migration studies 46.3 (2020): 649–664. [https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/168916/1/Schlueter_Masso_Davidov_jems.pdf online]
  • Sundstrom, Ronald R., and David Haekwon Kim. "Xenophobia and racism." Critical philosophy of race 2.1 (2014): 20–45. [https://philpapers.org/archive/KIMXAR.pdf online]
  • Tafira, Hashi Kenneth. Xenophobia in South Africa: A History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). {{ISBN?}}
  • Yakushko, Oksana. Modern-Day Xenophobia: Critical Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on the Roots of Anti-Immigrant Prejudice (Springer. 2018) 129 pp, theoretical {{ISBN?}}

=Europe=

  • Bartram, David, and Erika Jarochova. "A longitudinal investigation of integration/multiculturalism policies and attitudes towards immigrants in European countries." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2021): 1–20. online {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005052059/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1922273 |date=5 October 2021 }}
  • Baumgartl, Bernd, and Adrian Favell, eds. New xenophobia in Europe (Martinus Nijhoff, 1995). {{ISBN?}}
  • Bukhair, Syed Attique Uz Zaman Hyder, et al. "Islamophobia in the West and Post 9/11 Era." International Affairs and Global Strategy 78 (2019): 23–32. [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/276531566.pdf online]
  • Davidov, Eldad, et al. "Direct and indirect predictors of opposition to immigration in Europe: individual values, cultural values, and symbolic threat." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46.3 (2020): 553–573. [https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/168913/1/Davidov_Seddig_Gorodzeisky_Raijman_Schmidt_Semyonov_jmes.pdf online]
  • De Master, Sara, and Michael K. Le Roy. "Xenophobia and the European Union." Comparative politics (2000): 419–436. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/422387 online]
  • Doty, Roxanne Lynn. Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies: Statecraft, desire and the politics of exclusion (Routledge, 2003). {{ISBN?}}
  • Finzsch, Norbert, and Dietmar Schirmer, eds. Identity and intolerance: nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States (Cambridge UP, 2002) 16 essays by scholars.{{ISBN?}}
  • Harrison, Faye V. Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights (2005) {{ISBN?}}
  • Heath, Anthony, et al. "Contested terrain: explaining divergent patterns of public opinion towards immigration within Europe." (2020): 475–488. online {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005051841/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1550145 |date=5 October 2021 }}
  • Jolly, Seth K., and Gerald M. DiGiusto. "Xenophobia and Immigrant Contact: French Public Attitudes Toward Immigration" The Social Science Journal (2014) 51#3: 464–473.
  • Kende, Anna, and Péter Krekó. "Xenophobia, prejudice, and right-wing populism in East-Central Europe." Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 34 (2020): 29–33. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.11.011 Xenophobia, prejudice, and right-wing populism in East-Central Europe]
  • Krumpal, Ivar. "Estimating the Prevalence of Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism in Germany: A Comparison of Randomized Response and Direct Questioning." Social Science Research (2012) 41: 1387–1403.
  • Makari, George. Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (2021), scholarly history focused on US and Europe; [https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Strangers-History-Xenophobia/dp/0393652009/ excerpt]
  • Minkenberg, Michael. "The Radical Right and Anti-Immigrant Politics in Liberal Democracies since World War II: Evolution of a Political and Research Field." Polity 53.3 (2021): 394–417.
  • Quillian, Lincoln. "Prejudice as a response to perceived group threat: Population composition and anti-immigrant and racial prejudice in Europe." American Sociological Review (1995): 586–611. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2096296 online]
  • Schlueter, Elmar, Anu Masso, and Eldad Davidov. "What factors explain anti-Muslim prejudice? An assessment of the effects of Muslim population size, institutional characteristics and immigration-related media claims." Journal of ethnic and migration studies 46.3 (2020): 649–664. [https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/168916/1/Schlueter_Masso_Davidov_jems.pdf online]
  • Scully, Richard, and Andrekos Varnava, ed. Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art (Manchester UP, 2020) {{ISBN?}}
  • Strabac, Zan, Toril Aalberg, and Marko Valenta. "Attitudes towards Muslim immigrants: Evidence from survey experiments across four countries." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 40.1 (2014): 100–118.
  • Tausch, Arno. "Muslim immigration continues to divide Europe: A quantitative analysis of European social survey data." Middle East Review of International Affairs 20.2 (2016). [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arno-Tausch/publication/307639978_MUSLIM_IMMIGRATION_CONTINUES_TO_DIVIDE_EUROPE_A_QUANTITATIVE_ANALYSIS_OF_EUROPEAN_SOCIAL_SURVEY_DATA_Middle_East_Review_of_International_Affairs_Vol_20_No_2_Summer_2016/links/57ce927408ae83b37461e71e/MUSLIM-IMMIGRATION-CONTINUES-TO-DIVIDE-EUROPE-A-QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS-OF-EUROPEAN-SOCIAL-SURVEY-DATA-Middle-East-Review-of-International-Affairs-Vol-20-No-2-Summer-2016.pdf online]
  • Thränhardt, Dietrich. "The political uses of xenophobia in England, France and Germany." Party politics 1.3 (1995): 323–345.
  • Todd, Emmanuel. Who is Charlie? Xenophobia and the new middle class. Polity Press, 2015, France. {{ISBN?}}

=United States=

  • Anbinder, Tyler. "Nativism and prejudice against immigrants," in A companion to American immigration, ed. by Reed Ueda (2006) pp. 177–201 [https://books.google.com/books?id=1KinC3zKCHcC&q=%22just%20as%20interest%22 excerpt]
  • Awan, Muhammad Safeer. "Global terror and the rise of xenophobia/Islamophobia: An analysis of American cultural production since September 11." Islamic Studies (2010): 521–537. online{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Baker, Joseph O., David Cañarte, and L. Edward Day. "Race, xenophobia, and punitiveness among the American public." Sociological Quarterly 59.3 (2018): 363–383. [https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=sociology_articles online]
  • Bennett, David H. The Party of Fear: The American Far Right from Nativism to the Militia Movement (U of North Carolina Press, 1988). [https://archive.org/details/partyoffearfromn00benn online]
  • FitzGerald, David Scott, and David Cook-Martín. Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard UP, 2014) [https://www.amazon.com/Culling-Masses-Democratic-Immigration-Fitzgerald/dp/B01K9574EA/ excerpt]
  • Lee, Erika. "America first, immigrants last: American xenophobia then and now." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19.1 (2020): 3–18. [https://scholar.archive.org/work/o7drkfxvvbaifotn2binrf7sju/access/wayback/https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C9656464A5BA481C7F976C4835173E2D/S1537781419000409a.pdf/div-class-title-america-first-immigrants-last-american-xenophobia-then-and-now-div.pdf online]
  • Lee, Erika. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019). The major scholarly history; [https://www.amazon.com/America-Americans-History-Xenophobia-United/dp/1541672615/ excerpt]; also see [https://networks.h-net.org/node/3911/reviews/6447323/mckinstry-lee-america-americans-history-xenophobia-united-states online review]
  • Makari, George. Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (2021), scholarly history focused on US and Europe; [https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Strangers-History-Xenophobia/dp/0393652009/ excerpt]