The Existential Nature of Anxiety

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Anxiety is the natural human fear of future loss. It's hardwired into our biology, actually, in the fight or flee complex that we have hardwired. You cannot be involved in some way in immigration and not feel the fear offuture loss on both sides.

One cannot make sense of the deformation of the current conservative movement without understanding immigration. And one cannot grasp the nature of immigration without understanding anxiety. Like most political issues today, the topic of immigration is bathed in anxiety - for everyone on all sides. Curtis draws these connections, with the ultimate aim to show that Christians can uniquely contribute to the conversation about immigration because we have uniquely good news about anxiety. This episode draws from Curtis’ talk at a convening of the National Immigration Forum in Ohio that included local pastors and civic leaders.

January 6 Was Practice, The Atlantic, January 2022 by Barton Gellman

Pew Research Center on Immigration and Politics

Immigration and far-right voting : New evidence (from Europe) from the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)