And by immigrants I really mean immigrants: you don’t have the nationality and live in the country = you’re an immigrant.
I keep reading about the plans of parties to kick out all immigrants, stop letting in any, and some parties even advocate to revoke dual-nationalities and kick those people out too. I’ve never really understood what the point of it is and have trouble imagining what the effects of such actions would be within the country.
I have heard quite recently from a podcast called “weird little guys” about the theory of the “outsider”. For political reasons, it is easy to frame a problem has being an “outsider” force doing said bad behaviour, since it is easy to blame solely on “outsiders” instead of addressing the problem. Since there are people that are still quite tribalistic on the way of thinking, this works for them. Since anything different = bad. And on this spectrum you find from racism to xenophobism (and no, don’t correct me to xenophobia, people are not afraid of outsiders, they hate them. Big difference)
Yea, In-Groups and Out-Groups. Also it is very important for the In-Group to openly show that the rules don’t apply to them, only to the Out-Groups. ICE killing without any repercussion is an example.