This article discusses the debate on sexism that flared up again as a consequence of the moral panic after the sexual assaults by young migrants and refugees during the New Year’s Eve celebrations 2015/2016. I introduce the concept of ethnosexism in order to approach an existing yet currently aggravated conceptualization of migration as a ‘sexual problem’. This adds an intersectional dimension to the concept of sexism. I then consider the ‘sexually dangerous muslim refugee’ as a figure of defense against migration and analyze its function in feminist and liberal attitudes for narratives of western superiority.