"Vampires are represented as sexually predatory immigrants who infect and enslave the weak and the unwary. Vampires contaminate flesh and blood; they disrupt national and racial certainty."

XREF: This echoes literary readings of Dracula as a metaphor for Eastern European immigration and anxieties over national/racial purity in Victorian Britain.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 523