Fear Of Immigration

Immigration isn’t a brand new topic that we are facing in the world. It something that has been present in the world since the defining of “nations” as people move from one location to another for a multitude of reasons. Whether it is the fleeing from an attacking group, such as the Mongols in the 13th century, the movement of Europeans to the Americas in the 15th and 16th century, the migration of thousands of Mexicans into the United States, or the migration of refugees into countries like Germany, Immigration is an unstoppable process that will always take place. However, this does not mean that it goes unopposed. For example, in the case of Germany and its current influx of refugees, there are groups, such as the Patriotic Europeans against …show more content…
With the large flood of immigrants from countries that differ in culture, religion and language, the people most likely have a sense of fear of what is to come. There is a definite understanding that “empathy is asserted with real refuges from war-torn states”, but that seems to be in cases where individuals are receiving only “free accommodation, three daily meals together with medical insurance, and monthly pocket money.” Once an individual starts to feel their ownerships being pulled away from them, they start to oppose the incoming migrants. “In economic terms, newcomers compete with locals for scarce resources, especially jobs”, and it as soon as the locals start to feel this pressure to compete with beings who aren’t from their country that they oppose the idea of more outsiders coming. It is best said by Adam who says, “when citizens are expected to share their entitlements with noncitizens, the universal human rights of non-nationals are given short shrift almost …show more content…
With the rise in Islamic extremism across the middle east, and as we see a number of attacks happening on western land, such as the attacks in Pairs in 2015 or bombings in Brussels in 2016, more and more people are associating Islam with terrorism and are equating all Muslims as the enemy. According to Wilhelm Heitmeyer, “more than 60% of Germans assume that Muslims are sympathetic towards terrorism”, and this is because there is a lack of understanding within the people. They assume that just because an individual is associated with a certain factor that another group is claiming as their own, that that individual must also be associated in some shape or form, and statistically speaking, that is just