Anti-migrant venom finds fuel in N.Ireland sectarian divide / 66KT29E
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Northern Ireland's pro-UK unionists and loyalists celebrate annually a victory of Protestant king over a Catholic rival in 1690 by building bonfires, holding parades, and street parties.
In recent years anti-migrant banners have been placed on the pyres as well as Irish flags and election posters of Irish nationalist politicians.
This year a model of a boat with life-sized mannequins depicting refugees was placed on top of one bonfire, a potent example of how the province's deep sectarian divide has fanned and mixed with anti-immigrant hatred.
According to Dominic Bryan, an anthropology professor at Queen's University Belfast, loyalists have ceded ground demographically, economically, and politically to pro-Irish unity nationalists in recent decades, and migrants have become an outlet for their frustration. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES