Immigrant Invasion

Immigrant invasion—or similar phrases that imply that "immigrants are invading the homeland", is a rhetoric that is used by those who favor nativist politics.

Nativism and immigrant invasion

According to the 2004 book entitled ''Migration Between States and Markets'', the phrases "immigrant invasion" or "illegal alien invasion" and similar iterations, are used by nativists to describe what they believe are unassimilated and unassimilable i mmigrants. Louis Dow Scisco (1868-) coined the term nativism in his 1901 PhD thesis in reference to anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic sentiments in the 1850s in the United States. In his 1955 seminal and most influential academic study of the history of American nativism, '' Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925''—which has been reprinted numerous times—John Higham, then a history professor in the University of Michigan, described nativism as "an inflamed and nationalistic type of ethnocentrism."Higham was writing against the backdrop of the 1954 McCarthy hearings, in which for 36 days, investigative hearings into the alleged infiltration of the federal government agencies—including the CIA—by communists, led by then-Senator Joseph McCarthy, were televised. McCarthy had claimed on February 9, 1950 that he had a list of names and carried out investigations until he was censored in 1957 by the Senate. The televised hearings caused a national upheaval in which the concept of nationalism was revisited.

Australia

In a ''Guardian'' article, La Trobe University's fellow and emeritus professor, Robert Manne wrote that four tabloids owned by the Murdoch family, the ''Daily Telegraph'', the ''Herald Sun'', ''The Courier-Mail'' and the '' Adelaide Advertiser,'' had published a disturbing opinion piece by Andrew Bolt—Australia's "most influential columnist." Bolt said that Australia was "being destroyed by waves of immigrants – Chinese, Jews, Vietnamese, Indians, Muslims etc – who refused to assimilate and who, as colonists, treated Australia not as a home but as a hotel." Manne wrote that the publication of Bolt's article, entitled "The Foreign Invasion", in the mainstream media, is a "consequence of the steady and sinister and perilous drift of Australia's national conversation towards a permissible racism. In his article, which was also published in the '' Gladstone Observer'', Bolt blamed the "massive immigration" on "activists, academics and politicians" who promote multiculturalism, which he described as "a policy to emphasise what divides us rather than celebrate what unites."

Canada

There was a backlash against multiculturalism in the 1980s following an influx of refugees from Somalia. News commentators began to refer to "immigrants as "hordes" who stage "floods" and "invasions". ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. Journalist Diane Francis cited a teacher as saying that schools "has been totally disrupted by these invading hordes" of Somalian refugees. It was reported that these new arrivals were "damag ngCanadian society and caus nginconvenience for native-born Canadians." Francis predicted that the Somalis would contribute "very little, if anything to Canada in the future."

France

In the spring of 2011, with the European Union deeply divided over immigration, thousands of Tunisian refugees arrived in Lampedusa, Italy fleeing unrest in North Africa. An April 6, 2011 article in ''L'Express'', linked the arrival of the destitute immigrants, with the unexpected success of Jean Raspail's 1973 dystopian novel '' Le camp des saints'', which was on the list of top five bestsellers in France in mid-March. ''The Camp of the Saints'', which described a fictional invasion of France and destruction of Western civilization by a million immigrants from India, was translated into English and first published in New York in 1975. Then President Ronald Reagan received it as a gift in the early 1980s, and according to ''L'Express'', both Reagan and François Mitterrand, were fascinated by the book. Samuel P. Huntington praised it in his 1996 non-fiction '' Clash of Civilizations''. In 2004, William F. Buckley, Jr. called in a "great" novel and compared the fictional invasion in Raspail's novel as a cautionary tale regarding the controversial June 2004 rescue by the crew of the ship Cap Anamur, of "37 freezing and sick African refugees" in the Mediterranean. praised the book in 2004 as "a great novel" that raised questions on how to respond to massive illegal immigration, The Southern Poverty Law Center has condemned it for its anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Sweden

Chloe Colliver, a researcher for the London-based nonprofit, Institute for Strategic Dialogue that "tracks the online spread of far-right extremism", said that Sweden had become, an "enduring centerpiece of the far-right conversation." The August 10 ''Times'' article linked the rise of the far-right party Sweden Democrats, which won about 18% of the electorate in the 2018 elections, to a backlash against the rapid increase in the number of immigrants in Sweden since 2015. The message the party spread was that immigrants who had not assimilated were "eviscerating" Sweden's generous social welfare, which is based on the "egalitarian idea of the ''folkhemmet'', the concept that Sweden is a family with citizens that "take care of one another."According to the August 10 ''Times'' article, the Sweden Democrats were established i
1988 by "several Nazi ideologues"
Working together, Mattias Karlsson and Jimmie Akesson, transformed the party by purging Neo-Nazis, and announcing a ""zero tolerance" policy toward extreme xenophobia and racism."

United States

The inventor Samuel Morse (1791–1872) used imagery of an invading army of immigrants in a series of articles he wrote under the pen name "Brutus" that were first published in the ''New York Observer''—then owned by his brother. In 1835, the articles were compiled and published in the book ''Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States.''Text
/ref> Morse said that immigration had undermined the American character. In 1834 Samuel Morse had joined his fellow New Yorkers and many other Americans, in the growing anti-immigration, anti-Catholic nativist movement. He wrote that the impoverished and illiterate Catholic immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Italy, who, he said, gave their full allegiance to the Pope, posed a threat to American Protestantism and the "American way of life." Morse ran and lost in a bid to become mayor of the New York Nativist Party. Morse called on "every citizen who values his birthright" to repel "this insidious invasion of the country" by the Catholics. Morse wrote that, "Must we wait for a formal declaration of war? The serpent has already commenced his coil about our limbs, and the lethargy of his poison is creeping over us. ...The house is on fire ." To Morse, "monarchy and Catholicism were inseparable and unacceptable, if democracy was to survive."

The title of the August 27, 1873 ''San Francisco Chronicle'' article, "The Chinese Invasion! They Are Coming, 900,000 Strong", was traced by ''The Atlantic'' as one of the root causes of the spread in the late 2010s of "immigration invasion" rhetoric. The United States federal law, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, was the first law that excluded a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating to the United States. Through a series of legislation over many decades—the Magnuson Act, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965—which overturned the National Origins Formula, it was completely repealed.

Frank Julian Warne's his 1912 book entitled ''The Immigrant Invasion'' about the arrival in 2010 to the U.S. of one million new immigrants—"oppressed populations of Europe without land or access to it". Warne began with excerpts from recent works about conquering invaders by Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells