Anti-semitism and Xenophobia*

Kogan, Ilany

doi:10.1057/s11231-017-9113-6

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“…The way that the COVID-19 pandemic is fueling racism and discrimination against Asian individuals is unsettlingly, similar to the constant prejudice that gay men still face in association with HIV/AIDS ( Mawar et al 2005 ), particularly when accessing oral health care ( Brondani, Donnelly, and Postnikoff 2016 ; Donnelly et al 2016 ; Jessani et al 2019 ). Such stigma, discrimination, and prejudice are a constant for certain ethnicities and religious groups that have been experiencing xenophobia ( Suleman et al 2018 ; Hanasoge et al 2020 ) and anti-Semitism ( Kogan 2017 ). As advocated by Chen and Trinh (2020) , “if we can unite to overcome a pandemic of epic proportions, certainly we can also confront the socioracial issues [from it].”…”

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confidence: 99%

The HIV and SARS-CoV-2 Parallel in Dentistry from the Perspectives of the Oral Health Care Team

Brondani

Donnelly

2020

JDR Clinical & Translational Research

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to unravel the professional and social consequences of COVID-19 as compared with the AIDS pandemic according to oral health care providers, staff, and administrators. Methods: An exploratory qualitative inquiry via at-a-distance, semistructured interviews engaged a purposefully recruited sample of oral health care team workers in British Columbia. Interviews took place between April 20 and May 15, 2020; they were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and deidentified for interactive thematic analysis. An inductive process of coding was used to identify themes, subthemes, and categories of information. Results: Forty-five interviews were conducted with 18 dentists, 12 dental hygienists, 6 certified dental assistants, and 9 administrators; 22 were females. Interviews each lasted an average of 48 min. After the transcripts were coded, 3 subthemes emerged: 1) personal protective equipment and universal precautions as commonsense approaches to care during both pandemics; 2) an (un)collapsed world in terms of global lockdowns; and 3) social unrest in terms of the potential for stigma and discrimination caused by both pandemics. These subthemes made up the COVID-19–AIDS parallel theme. Conclusion: This study explored the extent to which the current COVID-19 pandemic is leading to professional and social consequences when a parallel is drawn with the AIDS pandemic. This is the first qualitative study that identifies the potential social unrest of the pandemic from the perspective of oral health care providers and administrators. Future studies should include other providers across Canada, as well the patients receiving oral health care during this pandemic. Knowledge Transfer Statement: The COVID-19 pandemic has unraveled potential societal implications in a parallel to the HIV/AIDS era from the perspectives of oral health care providers and their staff. Such implications are changing the way that oral health care is delivered; it may also be leading to social unrest in the form of stigma and discrimination. This study discusses some of these implications from the perspective of oral health care providers and administrators.

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The HIV and SARS-CoV-2 Parallel in Dentistry from the Perspectives of the Oral Health Care Team

Brondani

Donnelly

2020

JDR Clinical & Translational Research

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“…Dehumanization on a societal scale goes handinhand with xenophobia (Kogan, 2017). When xenophobia becomes part of a political or religious narrative and is used to foster intergroup conflict, unconscious processes, both at individual and group levels, are set in motion.…”

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Our Relations to Refugees: Between Compassion and Dehumanization*

Varvin

2017

Am J Psychoanal

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After the so-called refugee crisis of 2015-2016 European reactions to foreigners had come to the fore and we are seeing xenophobic political and populist movements become increasingly mainstream. The massive rejection of refugees/asylum seekers taking place has made their conditions before, during and after flight, increasingly difficult and dangerous. This paper relates current xenophobia to historical attitudinal trends in Europe regarding Islam, and claims that a much more basic conflict is at work: the one between anti-modernism/traditionalism and modernism/globalization. Narratives on refugees often relate them to both the foreign (Islam) and to "trauma". In an environment of insecurity and collective anxiety, refugees may represent something alien and frightening but also fascinating. I will argue that current concepts and theories about "trauma" or "the person with trauma" are insufficient to understand the complexity of the refugee predicament. Due to individual and collective countertransference reactions, the word "trauma" tends to lose its theoretical anchoring and becomes an object of projection for un-nameable anxieties. This disturbs relations to refugees at both societal and clinical levels and lays the groundwork for the poor conditions that they are currently experiencing. Historically, attitudes towards refugees fall somewhere along a continuum between compassion and rejection/dehumanization. At the moment, they seem much closer to the latter. I would argue that today's xenophobia and/or xeno-racism reflect the fact that, both for individuals and for society, refugees have come to represent the Freudian Uncanny/das Unheimliche.

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“…Ilany Kogan (2017) further noted that xenophobia has roots in early childhood, when an infant's fear of strangers can mark the quality of relationship with a caregiver, and specifically whether the infant develops a response of curiosity or that of fear. Kogan refers to a basic interpersonal survival mechanism in infant development.…”

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The fear of immigrants.

Tummala‐Narra

2020

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The presence and growing visibility of racial minority immigrants in the United States and across the globe has triggered a sense of collective anxiety, where dissociative defenses maintain emotional distance and identification with groups perceived to be threatening. Fringe movements and mainstream political parties have framed immigrants and refugees as the major cause of unemployment, crime, and a threat to their cultural and social fabric. Recent policies in the United States, such as those resulting in heightened policing of Black and Brown people and deportation of undocumented immigrants and separation of children from parents, have made explicit the connection between racism and xenophobia. These macrolevel policies and the broader xenophobic and racist sociopolitical climate in which they are implemented have important implications for intrapsychic life and interpersonal relationships. This paper explores psychoanalytic perspectives on the roots of xenophobia, racialized defenses, and their implications for the experiences of racial minority immigrants in the United States. The paper further addresses how the fear of immigrants reflects anxiety in multiple dimensions, involving not only fears of the receiving context or the host country, but also the xenophobia that immigrants carry with them from their countries of origin. The implications of xenophobia and racism are explored in the context of the therapeutic relationship, where the client and the therapist engage in difficult and emotionally charged ways with respect to the current sociopolitical climate. Clinical examples are provided to illustrate transference and countertransference dynamics, and related dilemmas centered on xenophobia and racism that arise in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

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Anti-semitism and Xenophobia*

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

The HIV and SARS-CoV-2 Parallel in Dentistry from the Perspectives of the Oral Health Care Team

The HIV and SARS-CoV-2 Parallel in Dentistry from the Perspectives of the Oral Health Care Team

Our Relations to Refugees: Between Compassion and Dehumanization*

The fear of immigrants.

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