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Let Me in! The Affirmation of a Radical “Other”

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In the preceding chapters, we carefully revised the history of colonial expeditions, the intersection of the native “Other” with science, and the evolution of leisure travels and the consolidation of the tourism industry. We make the point that after the terrorist attacks in 2001 in the US, Western civilization entered a state of crisis which gradually tended to demonize the non-Western “Other”. These chapters acted as conceptual platforms that guided readers to understand the role played by hospitality in the configuration of the modern nation-state. Although illustrative to some extent, these chapters lacked an empirical approach. This chapter, complementarily, keeps an empirically based dynamic focusing on the long durable effects of COVID-19 to re-draw new geopolitical strategies and relationships and feudal geography where the borders are in constant change. We combine case studies with ethnographic material organized in different interviews and journalist sources and articles.