Terrorist attacks and minority perceived discrimination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marco Giani (0000-0001-9510-0538, Department of Political Economy King’s College London London UK, corresponding author), Luca Paolo Merlino (0000-0003-0484-1539, Department of Economics University of Antwerp Antwerpen Belgium) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 286-299 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.12799 |
| PMID | 33368235 |
| OpenAlex | W3113847512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 51 |
A growing strand of the literature finds a causal negative impact of terrorism on undifferentiated discriminatory attitudes toward Muslims, migrants, and other minorities. In this paper, we argue that jihadist terrorism threatens first and foremost Muslims. To evaluate this claim, we estimate the causal effect of jihadist terrorism on the perceived discrimination among Muslims through a 2×2 quasi-experimental design. Exploiting "natural experiments" driven by exogenous variation in terror threat caused by jihadist attacks that unexpectedly occurred during the fieldwork of a large survey, we compare the perceived ethoracial discrimination of the relevant minority (Muslims) against other minorities (non-Muslims) before and after five different terror attacks in five different European countries. We find that jihadist attacks increase perceived ethnoracial discrimination among Muslims while reducing it among non-Muslims, and that individual-level factors including social status and economic insecurity mitigate public opinion responses to a greater extent than group-level factors do. Hence, while in-group attitudes toward out-groups tend to be undifferentiated, the experience of out-groups in the aftermath of jihadist attacks depends on the specific identity of the respondents
Criminology · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · Terror management theory · Terrorism · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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The Ideological Effects of Framing Threat on Immigration and Civil Liberties
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Do terrorist attacks affect ethnic discrimination in the labour market? Evidence from two randomized field experiments
Immigrants' Ethnic Identification and Political Involvement in the Face of Discrimination
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Introduction
Support for Multiculturalism and Minority Rights
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |