‘Cologne Changed Everything’—The Effect of Threatening Events on the Frequency and Distribution of Intergroup Conflict in Germany

Frey, Arun

doi:10.1093/esr/jcaa007

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“…According to official estimates, 3.21 million migrants have sought asylum in the European Union during the 2014–2016 refugee crisis, a number unprecedented in recent history (Eurostat, 2017 ). This sudden inflow in turn generated a heated public debate, aroused anti-immigrant sentiments, and fueled the rise of right-wing populism (Czymara and Schmidt-Catran, 2017 ; Geiges, 2018 ; Frey, 2020 ). Standard accounts explain these developments as reactions to rapid cultural change or demographic threats associated with the arrival of large Muslim populations (Hangartner et al, 2019 ).…”

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Gendered Discrimination Against Immigrants: Experimental Evidence

2020

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Recent migration from Muslim-majority countries has sparked discussions across Europe about the supposed threat posed by new immigrants. Young men make up the largest share of newly arrived immigrants and this demographic is often perceived to be particularly threatening. In this article, we compare pro-sociality and trust toward immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, focusing on gender differences in treatment. We study these questions using behavioral games that measure strategic (trusting) and non-strategic (pro-social) behavior. Our data comes from measures embedded in a large survey of residents of Germany's eastern regions, where anti-immigrant sentiments are high. We find that Germans are similarly pro-social toward immigrant men and women in non-strategic situations, but are significantly less likely to trust immigrant men (but not women) in strategic encounters. These findings provide evidence that immigrants' gender can be an important factor conditioning the behavior of the majority population, but also caution that (gendered) ethnic discrimination may be situationally dependent. Future research should further examine the exact mechanisms underlying this variation in discriminatory behavior.

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Gendered Discrimination Against Immigrants: Experimental Evidence

2020

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“…The number of monthly articles increased by four from July to September 2015 (print: from about 100 to about 400; online: from 200 to over 800). Another peak in January 2016 relates to the sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve, which many connected directly to the inflows of refugees (Frey 2020;Czymara and Schmidt-Catran, 2017). By spring 2016, media attention on the issue declined again, which suggests a normalization of the issue.…”

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“…This frame focuses on expressions of anti-immigrant protests and violence and the far right. It relates most to the PEGIDA protests, which peaked at the beginning of 2015, and attacks on refugee shelters in Saxony and other parts of Germany (Jäckle and König, 2017;Frey 2020). This is distinct from the right-wing populism frame, which relates to party politics and contains issues relating to Germany's newly emerged right-wing populist party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).…”

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New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

Czymara

Klingeren

2021

Communications

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News media have transformed over the last decades, there being increasing numbers of online news suppliers and an increase in online news consumption. We examine how reporting on immigration differs between popular German online and print media over three crucial years of the so-called immigration crisis from 2015 to 2017. This study extends knowledge on the framing of the crisis by examining a period covering the start, peak, and time after the intake of refugees. Moreover, we establish whether online and print reporting differs in terms of both frame occurrence and variability. The period of the crisis provided an ideal test to see whether the focus of media reporting differed between online and print sources. Employing a most- similar- cases design based on (autonomous) online and print versions of three major German news outlets, we extract the dominant frames in almost 18,500 articles using algorithm-based topic modelling. While results indicate that many frames are more visible in either online or print media, these differences often do not follow theoretical expectations. Furthermore, online media are dominated by particular frames and, hence, show less diversity than print media. However, important key events happening during our period of investigation do not affect overall diversity of frames.

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“…12 It intensified after reports of alleged sexual abuse of German women by refugee men on New Year's Eve 2015-16 (Frey 2021).…”

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Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees

Dancygier

Egami

Jamal

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American J Political Sci

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As the number of refugees rises across the world, anti-refugee violence has become a pressing concern. What explains the incidence and support of such hate crime? We argue that fears among native men that refugees pose a threat in the competition for female partners are a critical but understudied factor driving hate crime. Employing a comprehensive data set on the incidence of hate crime across Germany, we first demonstrate that hate crime rises where men face disadvantages in local mating markets. Next, we complement this ecological evidence with original survey measures and confirm that individual-level support for hate crime increases when men fear that the inflow of refugees makes it more difficult to find female partners. Mate competition concerns remain a robust predictor even when controlling for anti-refugee views, perceived job competition, general frustration, and aggressiveness. We conclude that a more complete understanding of hate crime and immigrant conflict must incorporate marriage markets and mate competition.

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‘Cologne Changed Everything’—The Effect of Threatening Events on the Frequency and Distribution of Intergroup Conflict in Germany

Cited by 63 publications

References 42 publications

Gendered Discrimination Against Immigrants: Experimental Evidence

Gendered Discrimination Against Immigrants: Experimental Evidence

New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees

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