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This study focuses on widespread hate speech towards refugees. It is evident that refugees are a source of unrest in society, and a considerable part of people are concerned about the deterioration of the regular social order. According to many sociologists of deviance, especially social disorganization theorists, social disorder increases when society is exposed to new ideas and customs that do not fit the conventional social order. In times of rapid change and mass migrations, as experienced in the United States in the early twentieth century, the disorder can be predicted to be widespread all along the society's old configuration. Labelling theory, which we concentrate on, reveals this point of view by making the middle classes an object of analysis. This study claims that targeting other/stranger elements in the public sphere through labeling behavior further increases the contradiction and disorder because the negative labels attributed to individuals always cause a conflicting environment where this negative image is emphasized.

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