The MagazineUnhappy in ExileThe ‘self-hating immigrant’ would do well to rebuild his home.May 31, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 35
• By STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
 A Short Border  Photo Credit: Corbis The Country Where Since the fall of Soviet communism 20 years ago, the transformation of national borders that were previously tightly defined and generally closed has confounded local identities in Europe, typically through controversy about the character of immigrants. This discourse most frequently concentrates on the challenge of a growing Muslim population in Western Europe, and includes opposition to Turkish membership in the European Union, as well as the recent Swiss ban on construction of minarets, and other episodes. But the new wandering of peoples across the old continent is not limited to the Islamic influx. The discontent of established populations toward new aspirants to residence extends past religion and terrorism. Rapacious Russian oligarchs, now free to invest and spend in the West, and cruel Balkan gangsters, dealing in drugs and women, are seldom associated in the media with radical Islam, although many such individuals may be Muslim in origin. To read more, you must be a Weekly Standard Subscriber We're Sorry,
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