“…We investigate community empowerment as an outcome, which has not been done previously. On the basis of the literature reviewed, we would expect to find negative associations between perceived diversity and residential, social, safety, and empowerment outcomes, due to a mixture of factors including unfamiliarity with newcomers, aversion to social change, tensions, conflicts and competition between settled and migrant groups, and perceived lack of control over community change (Bakker & Dekker, 2012; Chiricos et al, 2001; Havekes, Coenders, Dekker, & van der Lippe, 2014; Livingston et al, 2010). …”