GERMANY. Bad Schandau, Saxony. 2015. A t-shirt with the slogan "refugees not welcome, bring your families home". Produced by a small printing company called Nationales Versandhaus in the town of Bad Schandau. A symbol of the growing nationalist sentiment in Germany.
Since chancellor Angela Merkel consistently supported the opening of German borders to address its shrinking labor force, the so-called “demographic deficit,” has linked the asylum seekers to the need to rejuvenate Germany’s ageing society. Over the last ten years, German immigration policy has indeed undergone a much-needed liberalization.
Benevolence has recently given way to annoyance and anti-muslim sentiment in many european countries.