Nativism and xenophobia surge in times of economic anxiety or cultural unease, and though the targets may change, the arguments against all of them tend to be all too familiar: They steal jobs. They ...

Guess what these developments have in common? • Immigration is quickly becoming the number-one issue of the 2006 Congressional campaign. • CAFTA, an innocuous trade agreement with five Central ...

A tie clip that reads "Hongkonger" is worn by a protester outside the High Court during a gathering in support of activist Edward Leung, in Hong Kong on October 9, 2019. A tie clip that reads ...

Refer often enough, as politicians and editorialists do, to "the Judaeo-Christian tradition" and any Hindus, Buddhists, animists, Confucianists, Moslems, or Zoroastrians who happen to be in the ...

Historically, economic hardship and high unemployment tend to bring out anti-immigration sentiment. This can mean economic protectionism as well as cultural nativism--an attempt to preserve historical ...

CHICAGO — A political science professor recently co-wrote a book addressing nativism in the United States and people’s need for belonging. Author Clifford Young joined WGN News on Saturday morning to ...

Editor’s note: Jim Schutze is taking some well-earned time off, so we’re digging into the archives to bring you some of his hits. This one, from August 2013 is about Farmers Branch’s ultimately failed ...

Here’s a question for the proud Americans demanding that the unaccompanied foreign children showing up at our borders be deported: Suppose that one of these “illegal” minors was your neighbor, living ...

Who does this sound like? A group dealing with economic disruption decides that, rather than addressing its problems internally, it will blame outsiders. So the group adopts a nativist stance, looking ...