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By  Papa Cheikh Jimbira-Sakho -Writer and Journalist
Fundamental human rights declaration guarantees everyone the right to personal security without regard to colour of their skin or ethnic origin In the first part, we tackled the definitions of race, racism, and xenophobia. We then moved on to some real samples of racial discrimination in the UK. In this part, racial discrimination in other European countries — namely, France, Greece, Finland, Denmark, and Germany — will be highlighted.

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By  Papa Cheikh Jimbira-Sakho  Writer and Journalist

Since the beginning of this 21st century, Europe has become seriously confronted with expanding racial discrimination and xenophobia following massive migration. Actually, these two phenomena were directly proportional to the growing momentum of international labor migration in Western European countries, which  resulted from the end of the Cold War and the ensuing process of economic globalization. Yet, we know that with the ever-widening gap between the rich and poor countries (the latter being fettered by rapid population growth, environmental degradation, armed conflicts, etc.) that grievous process of globalization led many people from developing countries to assaulting the "European fortress" in search of better job opportunities and a haven of peace. Of course, this mass migration did not fail to cause deep feelings of insecurity among European populations traditionally agreed to racist and xenophobic ideas