The shift in world politics has led to an escalation of anti-immigrant sentiments on a global scale, including Europe. Interracial strife within a societal context exerts a deleterious impact on its populace, impeding harmonious coexistence and engendering untold consequences. This research paper analyses the nativist discourse in contemporary writings, focusing particularly on Douglas Murray's book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. The paper investigates the ways in which nativist narratives contribute to the stigmatisation of immigrants of different races, ethnicities, and religious backgrounds in Europe, with particular attention paid to Islamophobia, racism, nativism, and xenophobia. The paper examines the tension and discrimination between people of European and non-European descent in Europe, particularly in the context of nativism. It also focuses on the conflict between the European (White) and Non-European races. Murray argues that the immigrants in Europe from Arab, Asia and North Africa threaten the homogeneity of Europeans. Murray (2017) posits that Europe is imperilling its own existence by welcoming a large number of immigrants and is thus committing cultural suicide. It is propagated in Murray's work that this immigrant tide will wipe away the European culture, and Europe will become 'Eurabia', an extension of the Muslim Arab world, a term popularised by British Author Bat Ye’or. The paper will analyse how writings like Murray's are responsible for the stigmatisation of immigrants of different races, ethnicities and religious backgrounds in Europe. The paper will also try to counter Murray's claim that multiculturalism has failed and analyse the consequences of immigration on Europe's economy. The research has been carried out through a qualitative research method, and for this research, Douglas Murray's The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam has been used as a primary source, while the supplementary books and articles related to this book are used as secondary sources. The paper employs postcolonial and orientalist textual analysis techniques to explore the nativist motif in Murray's work, highlighting its impact on the discourse of anti-immigrant sentiments in Europe.
Key words: Nativism, Xenophobia, Anti-Immigration, Islamophobia, Racism.
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