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Refugees & Violent Group Grievance
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Abstract Do refugee inflows have an effect on state fragility? In this article I examine whether refugee inflows, commonly associated in the literature with economic and cultural pressures, result in a more fragile state by means of increased violent group grievance. Violent group grievance captures a distin... view more
Do refugee inflows have an effect on state fragility? In this article I examine whether refugee inflows, commonly associated in the literature with economic and cultural pressures, result in a more fragile state by means of increased violent group grievance. Violent group grievance captures a distinct form of intrastate violence, specifically small-scale hate crimes and ethnic group clashes associated with powerlessness and discrimination. The main hypothesis in this paper is that refugee inflows may increase violent group grievance. I examine the effect of refugee inflows on the level of domestic violent group grievance using quantitative analyses based on original large-N datasets and cross-sectional longitudinal models to fill gaps in the literature on state fragility. This study controls for alternative explanations and covers the time period between 2006 and 2014. The analysis results confirm the main hypothesis of this paper.... view less
Keywords
flight; refugee; ethnic conflict; discrimination; propensity to violence; conflict potential
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social Problems
Free Keywords
state fragility
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 13-23
Journal
Journal of Human Security, 14 (2018) 1
ISSN
1835-3800
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed