Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Immigration Phobia and Its Paradoxes
- 2 The Immigration Security Dilemma: Anarchy, Offensiveness, and “Groupness”
- 3 The Two Faces of Socioeconomic Impact Perceptions
- 4 In the Shadow of the “Asian Balkans”: Anti-Chinese Alarmism and Hostility in the Russian Far East
- 5 Who's Behind “Fortress Europe”? Xenophobia and Antimigrant Exclusionism from Dublin to the Danube
- 6 Los Angeles Ablaze: Antimigrant Backlashes in the Nation of Immigrants
- 7 Immigration and Security: How Worst-Case Scenarios Become Self-Fulfilling and What We Can Do About It
- Appendix A Primorskii 2000 Survey: Regression Results
- Appendix B Eurobarometer Survey No. 47.1 (1997): Regression Results
- Appendix C A Journey into Fear: The Immigration Phobia Self-Test
- References
- Index
5 - Who's Behind “Fortress Europe”? Xenophobia and Antimigrant Exclusionism from Dublin to the Danube
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Immigration Phobia and Its Paradoxes
- 2 The Immigration Security Dilemma: Anarchy, Offensiveness, and “Groupness”
- 3 The Two Faces of Socioeconomic Impact Perceptions
- 4 In the Shadow of the “Asian Balkans”: Anti-Chinese Alarmism and Hostility in the Russian Far East
- 5 Who's Behind “Fortress Europe”? Xenophobia and Antimigrant Exclusionism from Dublin to the Danube
- 6 Los Angeles Ablaze: Antimigrant Backlashes in the Nation of Immigrants
- 7 Immigration and Security: How Worst-Case Scenarios Become Self-Fulfilling and What We Can Do About It
- Appendix A Primorskii 2000 Survey: Regression Results
- Appendix B Eurobarometer Survey No. 47.1 (1997): Regression Results
- Appendix C A Journey into Fear: The Immigration Phobia Self-Test
- References
- Index
Summary
Whereas the Russian Far East findings suggest that the perceptual logic of the security dilemma is at the heart of immigration phobia, they come from a one-country probe. Does the perceptual logic of the security dilemma similarly relate to antimigrant hostility and threat perceptions in other countries, where the demographic, geographic, political, and socioeconomic contexts differ significantly from that in the Russian Far East? To address the question, this chapter examines xenophobia and antimigrant hostility at the other end of Eurasia – as reflected in political trends and public opinion in the fifteen member states of the EU. The EU is an excellent test case. On the one hand, differences in context relative to the Russian Far East are massive. The EU has no such neighbor as China and no equivalent of Russia–China demographic imbalance. The EU did not have Russia's problems with center–periphery relations following state collapse. In contrast, the EU context is the one composed of multiple host states, multiple sending states, strong transnational institutions, higher standards of living, and different cultural traditions, to name but a few major factors. And in addition, the nature of migration in the Russian Far East and the EU differed at least in one crucial respect: Most Chinese migrants in the Russian Far East were transients, while most migrants to the EU were settlers.
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- Immigration Phobia and the Security DilemmaRussia, Europe, and the United States, pp. 148 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005