Giving Compass' Take:

• Writing for Brookings Institute, one Washington insider examines the divisions that exist when it comes to immigration both here and abroad, along with the consequences on civil society.

• While politics and populism certainly plays a part, it's also worth looking at how organizations can do more to bring people together on this issue. It isn't just about the economy — it's about battling xenophobia.

• One easy place to start learning more is by following these immigrant rights activists and experts on Twitter.

In the wake of the disastrous G-7 meeting in Quebec, tension-filled NATO summit in Brussels, and widely condemned lovefest between the Russian and U.S. presidents in Helsinki, all in the past few weeks, the popular narrative has focused on the United States as a trans-Atlantic disrupter and Europe as a possible savior of the liberal international order. Fair enough. My experience as the senior Europe analyst in the U.S. intelligence community under the Obama administration and first few months of the Donald Trump presidency gave me a front-row seat to the early stages of major dysfunction and Trump’s hostility toward Euro-Atlantic institutions. The United States and Europe, however, have a common plague that should not be underestimated. Cultural displacement, masquerading as economic and border security anxiety, is chipping away at societal cohesion on both sides of the Atlantic.

In the United States, the shockwave of Trump’s election in 2016 and the widespread appeal of his policies continue to magnify a gulf in political allegiance and ideology. This divide is perhaps most prominent on the issue of immigration, as indicated by polling on the administration’s abandoned policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border. Democratic and Republican voters were miles apart.

Read the full article about facing the politics of cultural displacement by Spencer Phipps Boyer at Brookings.