This article analyses how Western societies have hostile attitudes and feelings of anger toward refugees and asylum seekers. Western societies also have a mistrust toward these refugees and it may have a negative impact on their general well-being. These fears Western have toward refugees and asylum seekers have had an effect on the laws immigration laws and policies. This peer review studies published work done between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2015. Westerns have been know to have mistrust toward refugees and asylum seekers in the past and a lot of events have happened in the world cause these miscued feelings toward refugees and asylum seekers.
One of the biggest event that caused these feelings is the September 11 attacks on the world trade center, the pentagon and flight 93. This was a coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. These attacks and the wars that followed caused a chain reaction of fear throughout Western society toward immigrants. Numerous authors have demonstrated how experiences of discrimination and racism are strongly related with growing feelings of anger, hostility, fear, and mistrust in victims. This is not just in America but in European countries, Canada and Australia.
The peer review gives three recommendation to that could help with these issues. (a)”Helping professionals should have greater involvement in advocacy matters, especially regarding the impact of government laws, policies, and practices related to RASI. (b) Governments and policymakers should be more cautious when passing immigration laws and policies, because these often have a much stronger effect on society’s negative views of RASI than may be anticipated. (c) More studies should be conducted to investigate the relationship between harsh immigration laws and societies’ negative attitudes and feelings toward RASI, and the possible impact of social media in inflaming those negative views and feelings.”
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