Marginalized native workers displaced by deindustrialization turn racism against immigrants

Evidence

In the first instance, we have the members of the dominant group who are also victims of social change and deindustrialization and who have become marginalized in society. These people are powerless, have a distinct feeling of being neglected or abandoned, are often expected to share the same conditions as the immigrant-origin populations, and are to some extent in competition with them on the labor market. These people turn against them. Here racism may take the form of verbal abuse, but a harder version may also attract skinheads and neo-Nazis; it may be sustained and provide material for the national socialist discourse of the radical right. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3153

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes the ‘left behind’ thesis in my Trump-era political writing and the ressentiment literature — connects to my stash on right-wing radicalization. — connects to: Farmers’ agrarian distress indirectly heightened urban anti-immigrant tension. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 220; Coal operators imported strikebreakers to defeat unionized native workers — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 274
• SEED: Could anchor an essay on how economic displacement of the dominant group manufactures scapegoated others — the material basis of nativist backlash.