Civilised Communities
Reconsidering the ‘Gloomy Tale’ of Immigration and Social Order in a Changing Town
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8402201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Griffiths (0000-0001-5735-3104, corresponding author), Clare E Griffiths |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1109-1128 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azu064 |
| OpenAlex | W2004271343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
Immigration and its effects on crime, social disorder and community tensions remains a pervasive feature of public, government and academic discourse. This discourse often considers immigration, and immigrants themselves, as a threat to the community’s existing moral and social order. This paper presents the findings of a case study that used quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the experiences of social order following a recent wave of Polish migration in a small working class town in the North West of England. The key findings show that the assumed association of migration with a disruption to social order receives little support. Rather, the social order in the studied locale is predominantly managed and maintained through ‘civilised relationships’ between migrants and established residents, thus failing to culminate into conflict between the two groups. This situation of ‘civility’ provides an alternative to the preponderance of previous research telling a ‘gloomy tale’ of immigration and its impact on local communities.
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Loose Connections
The Personal and the Political
Great American City
Ethnicity as social capital
Sampling hard to reach populations
Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union
Social Order and the Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times
Shame, Rage and Racist Violence
To these Wet and Windy Shores
Negotiating identities
Changing attitudes toward immigration in Europe, 2002–2007
Questioning the Measurement of the 'Fear of Crime
Racism, Ethnicity and Criminology. Developing Minority Perspectives
Signal crimes and signal disorders
The nature of prejudice
E Pluribus Unum
Resources, Group Conflict and Symbols
Social Trust, Social Capital and Perceptions of Immigration
Whites' opposition to busing
Disorder, order and control signals
Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city
Status Crystallization
Group Threat and Social Control
The Established and the Outsiders
Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms
Respondent-Driven Sampling
Targeted Sampling
In a Foreign Land
Urbanism as a Way of Life
The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community
Community Cohesion, Asylum Seeking and the Question of the 'Stranger
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |