Intense or irrational dislike or fear of anything that is strange or foreign, particularly of people who are strangers or foreigners. It is an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population that includes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude or vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.
    

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Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

[Press cuttings about Jewish people] : 1753-1771.

'I know who caused COVID-19' : pandemics and xenophobia / Zhou Xun and Sander L. Gilman.

The health of newcomers : immigration, health policy, and the case for global solidarity / Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet.

The new Coronavirus abecedary / Pop & Zebra.

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[Press cuttings about Jewish people] : 1753-1771.

'I know who caused COVID-19' : pandemics and xenophobia / Zhou Xun and Sander L. Gilman.

The health of newcomers : immigration, health policy, and the case for global solidarity / Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet.

Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

The new Coronavirus abecedary / Pop & Zebra.