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Terrorist attacks and minority perceived discrimination
The British Journal of Sociology ( IF 3.277 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-27 , DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12799
Marco Giani 1 , Luca Paolo Merlino 2
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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.

中文翻译:

恐怖袭击和少数人认为的歧视

越来越多的文献发现恐怖主义对穆斯林、移民和其他少数民族的无差别歧视态度具有因果关系的负面影响。在本文中,我们认为圣战恐怖主义首先威胁到穆斯林。为了评估这一主张,我们通过 2×2 准实验设计估计了圣战恐怖主义对穆斯林歧视的因果关系。利用在大型调查的现场工作中意外发生的圣战袭击造成的恐怖威胁的外生变化所驱动的“自然实验”,我们比较了相关少数群体(穆斯林)与其他少数群体(非穆斯林)之前和之前的种族歧视。在五个不同的欧洲国家发生五次不同的恐怖袭击之后。我们发现圣战袭击增加了穆斯林中感知到的种族歧视,同时减少了非穆斯林中的种族歧视,并且包括社会地位和经济不安全在内的个人层面因素比群体层面因素更大程度地减轻了公众舆论反应。因此,虽然内部群体对外部群体的态度往往是无差别的,但外部群体在圣战袭击之后的经历取决于受访者的具体身份。
更新日期:2020-12-27
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