ABSTRACT
This chapter examines newcomers as the Other who passes through the border surrounding the host people. To illustrate the appearance and consequences of shared prejudice against displaced people and immigrants, especially when there is an influx of newcomers from a different cultural, religious, or linguistic background, it returns to big tent metaphor and examines border psychology. The chapter discusses the psychology of newcomers and hosts, in order to bring such knowledge to the public's attention. Psychologically speaking, the main fear is the contamination of their large-group identity by the identity of the Other. The existence of a psychological border has been acknowledged by politicians. Defining and maintaining physical borders has always been vital to international and large-group relationships, but closer examination reveals that an effective psychological border is far more essential than simply a physical one. In fact, it may be said that a physical border succeeds only when it signifies a sufficient psychological one.
