Summary: This week we looked into the effects of sudden change in terms of racial demographics. Enos’ experiment in 2014 is a very interesting experiment in which he looks into intergroup contact and exclusionary attitudes. Basically, he finds that when a group is exposed to people in the “outgroup” they are more likely to have exclusionary feelings towards that group. However, as time goes on and this “outgroup” is assimilated in their lifestyle, their exclusionary attitudes become less extreme. This article is about the “ingroup” (White workers in the UK) fighting against the rise of the outgroup. Groups seem to blame other racial groups for their races struggles especially economically speaking. Although this article is about the UK and not the US, it still has the same principles that we see in the United States with hispanic immigrants.

Discussion Question: How do politicians get away with targeting a racial group as the source of a nation’s problems, and why are people able to back these politicians without a moral dilemma?

Article Citation: Dhillon., Amardeep. “Anti-Migrant Politics Weakens the Workers’ Movement.” Red Pepper, 3 Apr. 2019, www.redpepper.org.uk/anti-migrant-politics-weakens-the-workers-movement/