Material scarcity and strangeness breed nativist resentment toward newcomers

Evidence

The competition for food, housing, and initially jobs incurred the resentment of residents. The seeming strangeness of the new arrivals prompted resident Germans to disparage them as ‘foreigners’, ‘Poles’, or ‘gypsies’. To contain the social and political problems that expellees presented, which included the fear that their regional and national lobbies would form an extra parliamentary opposition, the Christian Democratic-led government under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer offered economic as well as legal security. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 185

Categorization

• XREF: Resident hostility to expellees as ‘foreigners’ parallels nativist backlashes against migrants studied in Strangers in the Land and anti-Muslim nativism — useful cross-domain parallel for the manufactured-enemy question. — connects to: Early hostility to new immigrants was cultural contempt, not nativism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 391; Perceived resource scarcity combined with a competitive outgroup triggers instrumental prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1489; Zero-sum competition over resources produces ethnocentrism and intergroup hostility — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 136
• SEED: Possible angle: how native populations who themselves experienced wartime hardship still scapegoat internal refugees — the proximity paradox of nativism among the recently victimized.

Broader Connections

• Zero-sum competition over resources produces ethnocentrism and intergroup hostility #expands (0.88) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 136
• Perceived resource scarcity combined with a competitive outgroup triggers instrumental prejudice. #expands (0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1489
• Early hostility to new immigrants was cultural contempt, not nativism #contradicts (0.82) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 391