Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

Skinheads: Mythologies, Recruitment, and Violent Attacks A hate group is “when a group of people join together to oppose and even destroy another group because they believe that the group is responsible for some negative change in their environment” (Barken and Snowden, 2001, p.105). As for skinheads, the negative change in their environment was an increase in immigration. “Coming from Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey, these workers have made up for labor shortages in agriculture and service jobs” (Hayes, 1994, p.2). Immigration’s result on employment standards and wages was therefore devastating to white youth in Britain. As for skinhead mythologies, race, or more specifically, white racial purity is the main item on the skinhead agenda. Skinheads believe minorities are given preferential treatment in schools as well as in the workplace. Skinheads are very threatened by immigrants, not only because of employment, but also because they fear they are inundating the nation and minorities are out-breeding the majority, the white race. Skinheads believe immigrants only harm them and their country, but in f