Tension around asylum seekers back is well on

Stockholm Friday were masked people full of aggression on the streets. A few days earlier in Sweden a female worker stabbed to death in a refugee center for young people. In leaflets which the group handed out Friday stated that they see no alternative by "the weakness of the police 'than themselves refugees get the punishment they deserve." A group of North African men were attacked, threatened and intimidated.

In our own country this weekend surfaced at a movie that shows how a dozen residents of a refugee center in Zaandam turns against ambulance staff and police. A furious applicant shares a striking staircase against a police car.

The movie delivers countless angry and verbally aggressive responses. And although this is less extreme than what happened in Sweden, is also a large number of angry responses directed against asylum seekers in general. Is a split in society near?

Extremely right

What happened in Sweden, according to anthropologist Sinan Çankaya, attached to the university, extreme, but in the Netherlands certainly not be ruled out. "This kind of extreme right-wing groups are here too. Although still less droves, but we have already seen them at various consultation evenings on the arrival of asylum seekers. "According to cultural anthropologist grow these extreme right-wing groups in Western Europe. "These groups benefit from dissatisfaction with angry citizens. And thus the risk of further polarization and divisions in society definitely there. "

context

Incidents involving asylum-seekers are concerned, calls anger in society Çankaya understands, but he hopes people continue to keep the context in mind.

"We do not pretend that every refugee is free of malicious behavior. It's not all good men. But what looks like the microworld of AZC, also know but few. People are stuck together, waiting in uncertainty. Creates a cocktail that causes enormous breaking behavior in different places. And that's not good to talk, but the danger is that the anger that this creates, is projected on the whole group. "

online

And at a time when almost everyone has a camera on his cell phone and using social media, an incident such as distributed in Zaandam in no time. "There's a magnifying glass on every incident," said Çankaya. "All the separate events are strung quickly together with an us / them mentality as a result."

Bianca Brasser / Source: Metronieuws.nl/ © Snapshots Still