Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People
Marta-Marika Urbanik,
Katharina Maier,
Justin E C Tetrault
et al.
Abstract:Advocates and academics have increasingly called on governments to recognize anti-homeless violence as a hate crime and type of domestic extremism, representing a broader trend in Westernized countries for responding to social issues through anti-hate policies. Can these approaches protect unhoused people? Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and observation with 50 unhoused community members in a Canadian city, we outline their experiences with anti-homeless and anti-Indigenous violence. Our findings show how… Show more
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