Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime
- In this article, we examine anti-refugee hate crime in the wake of the large influx of refugees to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting institutional features of the assignment of refugees to German regions, we estimate the impact of unexpected and sudden large-scale immigration on hate crime against refugees. Results indicate that it is not simply the size of local refugee inflows which drives the increase in hate crime, but rather the combination of refugee arrivals and latent anti-refugee sentiment. We show that ethnically homogeneous areas, areas which experienced hate crimes in the 1990s, and areas with high support for the Nazi party in the Weimar Republic, are more prone to respond to the arrival of refugees with incidents of hate crime against this group. Our results highlight the importance of regional anti-immigration sentiment in the analysis of the incumbent population’s reaction to immigration.
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| Author: | Horst EntorfGND, Martin LangeORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-790174 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103913 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0462 |
| Parent Title (English): | Regional science and urban economics |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/06/20 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2023/06/08 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/11/10 |
| Tag: | Hate crime; Immigration; Refugees; Regional conditions |
| Volume: | 101 |
| Issue: | 103913 |
| Article Number: | 103913 |
| Page Number: | 17 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 515300209 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 36 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste / 360 Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste; Verbände | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
