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Germs, Peacocks, and Scheming Domestics: Theories That Construct or Confront Xenophobia

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Varied theories have been used to justify as well as critique xenophobia in social sciences. Evolutionary theories, just as during era of social Darwinism and eugenics, have been used to justify anti-immigrant sentiments as based on genetic differences and mythologized historical accounts. In addition, treating immigration as a “real” threat or focusing on immigrants’ “acculturation” to dominant culture have also been central to creation of other theories of xenophobia. In contrast, many theorists have offered critical perspectives in regard to attitudes toward Others, foreigners, strangers, and minorities. Theories of guilt, splitting/projection, Motherland/Fatherland discourse, archetypes/hostile imagination, Other/Othering, social death, self-idealization/psychophobia, and de-colonialism are discussed in relation to xenophobia.

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