Hidden Hate: The Resilience of Xenophobia by Matthew Creighton revalues xenophobia as a dynamic and multidimensional phenomenon rather than simply overt hostility toward immigrants. Associate Professor Matthew Creighton of University College Dublin exposes, through creative survey studies, that prejudice is often prevalent but deliberately and strategically hidden beneath the surface of apparently tolerant societies. Rich theoretical insights, along with innovative survey studies in the book, expose how anti-immigrant sentiment could be openly expressed, deliberately veiled, or even unconsciously hidden.
Using diverse survey methodologies, Matthew Creighton investigates overt, covert, and hidden xenophobic sentiments in Hidden Hate: The Resilience of Xenophobia. Chapter 1 defines the xenophobe using conceptual analysis, while Chapter 2 presents survey experiments to evaluate how anonymity affects the revealing of intolerance. Chapters 3 and 4 explain how political and economic changes affect the manifestation of xenophobia by means of anonymous comparative surveys before and after the U.S. financial crisis and Brexit referendum. In a similar way to surveys, Chapter 5 explores racial framing in European settings, meanwhile Chapter 6 examines Islamophobia in the United States, United Kingdom, and Norway, therefore exposing the mechanics of hidden xenophobia. Lastly, Chapter 7 investigates anti-refugee sentiment in Norway and shows how social stigma shapes its expression.
