Editing Racial discrimination (section)

=== Discrimination against refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and internally displaced persons ===
Around the world, [[refugee]]s, [[asylum seeker]]s, [[Human migration|migrants]] and [[internally displaced person]]s have been the victims of racial discrimination, racist attacks, [[xenophobia]] and ethnic and religious intolerance.<ref name="hrw.org">{{Cite web|title=HRW: Refugees, Asylum seekers, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons|url=https://www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/race/refugeepresskit.html|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.hrw.org}}</ref> According to the [[Human Rights Watch|Human Right Watch]], "[[racism]] is both a cause and a product of [[forced displacement]], and an obstacle to its solution."<ref name="hrw.org"/>

With the influx of refugees to [[Europe]] in 2010, media coverage shaped public opinion and created hostility towards refugees.<ref name="theguardian.com">{{Cite web|date=2020-01-01|title=The refugee 'crisis' showed Europe's worst side to the world {{!}} Hsiao-Hung Pai|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/01/refugee-crisis-europe-mediterranean-racism-incarceration|access-date=2021-07-06|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> Prior to that the [[European Union]] had started implementing the hotspot system, which categorized people them as either asylum seekers or [[economic migrant]]s, and Europe's patrolling of its southern borders between 2010 and 2016 intensified, resulting in deals with [[Turkey]] and [[Libya]].<ref name="theguardian.com"/><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Karadağ|first=Sibel|date=2019-04-18|title=Extraterritoriality of European borders to Turkey: an implementation perspective of counteractive strategies|journal=Comparative Migration Studies|volume=7|issue=1|pages=12|doi=10.1186/s40878-019-0113-y|s2cid=150384637|issn=2214-594X|doi-access=free|bibcode=2019CmpMS...7...12K }}</ref>