This book engages the topic of xenophobia from both psychological and socio-political
approaches. Recently xenophobia as a social standpoint or social attitude has come under
increased scrutiny by the public scholars and educators however few works have directly
summarized current theories of xenophobia as well as articulated critical perspectives on the
issue. This work provides an overview of the concept historical factors related to its
development and a review of varied theoretical perspectives. The intertwining of psychological
and sociological perspectives allows the author to present a multi-dimensional multi-layered
argument in a way which effectively prevents any attempt to apply any one single over-arching
theory and thus effectively presents the complexity of the topic at hand.
