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XENOPHOBIA And Interscetionality

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XENOPHOBIA (XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS) AND THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF RACE, CLASS AND NATIONALITY.
Intersectionality is referred to as the notion that our privileges and our oppressions interact meaning that they are closely interlinked hence they cannot be seen as mutually exclusive and cannot be separately solved( Crenshaw,1991).The paradigm of interscetionality is a broad one hence this paper will focus on the intersection of race, class and nationality in relation to the phenomenon of xenophobia or rather xenophobic attacks. The main argument of these paper is that notion that xenophobic attacks seem to be more directed towards migrants who are of colour mostly those from other

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