Do immigrants increase crime? Spatial analysis in a middle-income country

Leiva, Mauricio; Lavín, Felipe Vásquez; Oliva, Roberto D. Ponce

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104728

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“…Just as the Mapuche people are stereotyped as criminals and violent (Chambers, 2020;Couso, 2012), certain groups of immigrants are associated with delinquency, drug trafficking, and other criminal activities (Dammert & Sandoval, 2019). Of course, this pattern is well known in Western countries (see, in this volume, Hendricks, Chapter 10; Hopner et al, Chapter 14; Woolard, Chapter 11)-and, just as in these Western countries, in Chile the claim that immigration is associated with higher levels of crime is not substantiated (Leiva et al, 2020).…”

Section: Rising Prejudice Against Immigrantsmentioning

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Immigration to Chile in a regional context.

Schweikart,

Hendricks

2022

Contemporary Immigration: Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions.

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Editors' Note: The vast majority of psychological research on immigrants has focused on North America and Europe. Salas Schweikart and Hendricks go against this trend, first by comparing migration trends in the Global South with those in the Global North and second by examining immigrants in Chile in a regional context (most immigrants to Chile are from neighboring Latin American countries). The discussion reflects different layers of an increasingly diverse Chilean society, with the Indigenous Chilean population (e.g., the Mapuche) as the longest established but lowest status group. The long shadow of colonial traditions and values continues to influence the treatment of immigrants, depending on their perceived ethnicity and cultural similarity to the Indigenous Chileans. This discussion relates to Chapter 14 by Hopner and colleagues, who describe the discrimination against New Zealand immigrants of Indigenous origin in Australia.

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Section: Rising Prejudice Against Immigrantsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Immigration to Chile in a regional context.

Schweikart,

Hendricks

2022

Contemporary Immigration: Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions.

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“…A salient example is a set of papers based on Colombia, including Lozano-Gracia et al (2010) and Ibáñez and Vélez (2008). More recently, Leiva et al (2020) uses a dynamic Spatial Durbin Model and find no relationship between immigration and crime rate in Chile.…”

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Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions

Ajzenman¹,

Dominguez-Rivera²,

Undurraga³

2020

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“…These variations mostly rely upon the mediating factors (education, socio-economic status, etc.) that significantly affect the outcomes rather than the background of the immigrant itself (Chen & Zhong, 2013;Leiva et al, 2020). Nevertheless, it is argued that moral panic in society, fueled by media hype and populist politics, leads to a plethora of anti-immigration laws and policies, which in turn makes immigrants and their communities less safe (Eberl et al, 2018).…”

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Crime and Violence Studies in the Immigration Field: Interactions between Disciplines and Emerging Concepts

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Gurer

2022

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This paper uses bibliometric analysis to evaluate the literature on immigration, crime, and violence to find out how these concepts are studied across disciplines. The paper gave specific attention to the field of Criminology to demonstrate the variation of the use of these concepts in the literature and how much it differs from other disciplines. To meet these expectations, we examined how journals are categorized based on covering how immigration and crime interact in social science disciplines. Moreover, the analysis maps how research articles interact in different journals and what types of topics receive the most attention among researchers by looking at cross-citation data and keyword selection. The findings show that, overall, the number of publications used at least one of the studied items (immigration, crime, and violence) as a keyword increased tremendously in the last two decades. The most studied concept amongst all disciplines is violence, followed by gender and crime with the combination of migration, immigration, immigrants. The topic has been mostly studied from the ‘receiving country’ perspective and funding leads to an increase in publications. The findings suggest Criminology is the top field producing most of the studies in the field followed by public health-related research. These findings suggest that migration, when it is connected to crime and violence, is considered an individual- and social-level challenge requiring the attention of experts in understanding criminal and deviant behavior as well as experts from public health.

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Do immigrants increase crime? Spatial analysis in a middle-income country

Cited by 21 publications

References 48 publications

Immigration to Chile in a regional context.

Immigration to Chile in a regional context.

Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions

Crime and Violence Studies in the Immigration Field: Interactions between Disciplines and Emerging Concepts

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