Mass expulsion requires both perceived threat and perceived lack of alternatives

Evidence

The idea that European states might engage in the mass expulsion of their Muslim immigrant populations, or otherwise seek radically to reduce the size of the Muslim presence in Europe, rests on two premises. The first is that European societies come to perceive their Muslim populations as long-term net drains on Europe and/or a threat to the future of Europe. The second is that expelling or reducing the Muslim population comes to be seeri as the only practical option. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 256

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the chapter’s own earlier finding that Europe is not integrating its Muslim populations culturally or socially — the first premise is presented as already plausible.
• SEED: An essay on the political preconditions for ethnic cleansing: it never begins with hatred, it begins with the collapse of alternatives in elite discourse.