Post by Countlife Academy

People who feel their place threatened respond in a predictable way. Attachment to place, like attachment to persons, turns defensive under threat. A home that felt like a gift begins to feel like a possession to be guarded. A neighbor becomes a competitor. The newcomer, precisely because he or she is visible, becomes the face of losses whose true causes are abstract and distant. It is far easier to march against a migrant shopkeeper than against decades of economic stagnation. The movements now sweeping South Africa, Britain, America, and many parts of the world speak the language of jobs and crime, but listen closely and their real claim is about who a place is for. “They must go” or "go back to your country"is really - at the end of the day - a belonging claim.