Immigration and Conflict in Europe

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
List of Figures and Tables......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Part I General Introduction and Theoretical Framework......Page 19
1 Introduction......Page 21
The Argument in Brief......Page 25
Existing Arguments......Page 27
Studying Immigrant Conflict within and across Countries......Page 29
Empirical Approach......Page 34
Plan of the Book......Page 36
Immigrant Conflict......Page 39
National Immigration Regimes and Local Economic Scarcity......Page 42
National Political Institutions, Political Behavior, and Immigrant Political Power......Page 50
Immigrant–Native Conflict......Page 52
Immigrant–State Conflict......Page 55
Assumptions......Page 62
Concept: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities......Page 64
Concepts: Violence......Page 66
Concepts: Mobilization......Page 68
Implications......Page 71
Conclusion......Page 76
Part II Introduction to Part II......Page 77
3 Patterns of Immigrant Conflict in Great Britain......Page 80
Immigrant Conflict and Large-Scale Violence: Patterns and Puzzles......Page 81
Immigrant Conflict and Economic Conditions......Page 84
Immigrant Conflict across Groups......Page 87
Explaining Immigrant Conflict......Page 92
Immigration without Immigration Policy......Page 94
Immigrant Voters......Page 100
The Economic Basis of Immigrant Conflict......Page 102
The Political Basis of Immigrant Conflict......Page 109
Summary and Conclusion......Page 116
4 Dynamics of Racist Violence......Page 120
The Problem of Racist Violence......Page 122
Individual-Level Explanations......Page 124
Contextual Explanations......Page 126
Racist Violence and Racist Voting......Page 127
The Determinants of Racist Violence......Page 131
Data and Variables......Page 132
Statistical Model and Results......Page 138
Robustness Checks and Extensions......Page 143
Conclusion and Discussion......Page 145
Part III Introduction to Part III......Page 147
Previewing the Cases......Page 148
Addressing Competing Explanations......Page 153
5 Immigrant–Native Conflict in Two London Boroughs......Page 156
Tower Hamlets......Page 157
Electoral History......Page 161
Electoral Competition and Bangladeshi Votes......Page 162
Bangladeshi Demands......Page 165
White Backlash......Page 167
The Local Entrenchment of Racist Violence......Page 169
Institutional Change and the Escalation of Immigrant–Native Conflict......Page 171
Ealing......Page 176
Electoral History......Page 179
Electoral Competition and Indian Votes......Page 180
Indian Demands......Page 183
From Conflict to Coexistence......Page 184
Explaining Interethnic Peace......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 194
6 Two Faces of Immigrant Conflict in Two Midlands Cities......Page 196
Birmingham......Page 200
Electoral Competition and the Immigrant Vote......Page 201
Immigrant Needs and Demands......Page 208
Native Reaction......Page 210
Immigrant Backlash against the State......Page 212
Leicester......Page 216
Electoral History......Page 217
Electoral Competition and the Indian Vote......Page 220
Immigrant Needs and Demands......Page 225
White Backlash......Page 227
Turnaround......Page 229
Reductions in Economic Scarcity......Page 230
Conclusion......Page 233
Part IV Introduction to Part IV......Page 237
7 Economic Integration, Political Exclusion, and Immigrant Conflict in Germany......Page 239
The Economic Logic of Guest-Worker Immigration and the Prevention of Resource Competition......Page 242
Employment and Housing: Germans First......Page 246
Immigrant Policy and the Prevention of Immigrant–Native Conflict......Page 250
National Salience amid Local Inaction......Page 252
Between Exit and Integration: State Responses to Immigrant Economic Disadvantage......Page 258
The Absence of Immigrant–State Conflict......Page 259
Exit, Economic Integration, and the Threat of Unrest......Page 260
Immigrant Economic Integration in Germany and Great Britain......Page 265
The Demise of the Guest-Worker Logic......Page 268
New Types of Immigrants, New Types of Conflict......Page 269
The Immigration Regimes of Aussiedler and Asylum-Seeker Migration......Page 270
Native Backlash......Page 273
Changes in Immigration Regimes and the Decline in Immigrant–Native Conflict......Page 275
Conclusion......Page 276
8 Immigration and Conflict across Countries......Page 279
Immigrant Conflict in France......Page 281
Immigration Regime......Page 282
Economic Integration......Page 283
Political Incorporation......Page 284
The Two Faces of Immigrant Conflict......Page 286
Citizenship, Immigration, and Economic Developments across Europe......Page 294
Trends in Citizenship and Immigrant Political Power......Page 295
Changing Immigration Regimes and the Economic Characteristics of Immigrants......Page 299
Economic Developments and Local Resource Scarcity......Page 302
Implications for Immigrant Conflict......Page 303
Reviewing the Argument......Page 310
Concluding Implications......Page 313
Appendix A Coding Large-Scale Instances of Immigrant–Native and Immigrant–State Violence......Page 317
Independent Variables......Page 319
References......Page 323
Index......Page 349