However, the Leitkultur was heavily criticized by Habermas and others who claimed that the debate was increasing xenophobia among the broader population (e.g. Habermas 2010).
In the wake of Brexit, the rise of the far right in Europe and increasing xenophobia, the last thing we must do is to stop travelling, to turn in on ourselves, to insulate ourselves from the world.
This discourse is in turn reinforcing trends toward increasing xenophobia among the broader population.
Increasing xenophobia and several violent incidents led to the launch in 1998 of the "Roll Back Xenophobia Campaign," but it remains to be seen if that effort will be successful.
Increasing xenophobia in Egypt led his family to emigrate to Athens in 1961.
Ms. Merkel governs in a coalition with the center-left Social Democrats, several of whom have questioned the need for a ban and have expressed concerns that it will contribute to what they see as increasing xenophobia.
Naima and many other Muslims in Europe wonder whether they are caught in a vicious cycle in which increasing xenophobia helps radicalize a generation of Muslims born in France, and they ask whether attacks like Mr. Merah's will further increase Islamophobia.
Cultural life flourished, primarily in the Hejaz, which was the centre for newspapers and radio, but the large influx of outsiders apparently increased xenophobia in a population already noted for its distrust of foreigners.
"The bottleneck will transform the country eventually into a vast transit space, with thousands waiting to cross, put added pressure on authorities that are already unable to cope, probably increase xenophobia and strengthen the far right but it will also add fuel to the anti-EU discourse".
This article argues that in Greece and Turkey, as in India and Pakistan and in Israel and Palestine, obstacles to peace derive in part from power struggles among privileged elites who mobilize popular feelings through media campaigns and other means designed to increase xenophobia and paranoia.
