The Hispanic lobby and liberal groups loathe a proposal to ban illegal immigrants from buying health insurance from new government-run exchanges using their own money but Mr Obama and senior Democrats, fearing attacks from the xenophobic right, support such a ban.
Following the stabbing of a mayoral candidate last weekend, German security experts and politicians warned of an upsurge in racist and xenophobic attacks as support for rightwing extremism grows, spurred on principally but not exclusively by migration.
The coup has even inspired xenophobic demonstrators to support it with such vigor that they blocked the airport runway and forced a plane of West African presidents — who had come to press for a restoration of democracy — to turn back before it could land.
Why Fox Sports thought it would be a good idea to use a speech in which a political candidate made racist and xenophobic comments to support the U.S men's soccer team — whose players have roots in Mexico and other countries — is just baffling.
AC: It's interesting because, as a lover of the science fiction and fantasy genres, I'm also pretty familiar with how those genres have been co-opted to support xenophobic or racist ideologies Norman Spinrad points out in The Iron Dream that Hitler's ideology fits disturbingly well with the classic pulps.
Although he used racist language, saying in December 1606 that "the Scots in other countries are more like pedlars than merchants", this was aimed at drumming up support from xenophobic elements, and Wright concludes he was not himself a xenophobe.
Voter support for xenophobic, nationalist and far right parties increased in France, Poland, Denmark, Britain and Germany.
Not since 1945 have movements of the far right and xenophobic right had such support across the continent.
Diversity management is lacking reference points after a backlash against multiculturalism (Vertovec & Wessendorf, 2010) and increasing support for xenophobic political parties, most of which are also Eurosceptic (Hartleb, 2011; Leconte, 2015; Chopin, 2015).
