Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime
研究了2014-2015年大量难民涌入德国后，反难民仇恨犯罪的区域差异，发现仇恨犯罪增加不仅与难民流入规模有关，更取决于当地潜在的排外情绪，对理解移民社会影响有参考价值。
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.