Spaces of harassment: a multilevel analysis of the role of community ethnic composition, segregation and social disorganisation among ethnic minorities in Britain

Shankley, William ORCID: 0000-0002-8361-9065 and Laurence, James (2021) Spaces of harassment: a multilevel analysis of the role of community ethnic composition, segregation and social disorganisation among ethnic minorities in Britain. JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 49 (9). pp. 2264-2289.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2021.1974823

Abstract

This paper examines the community-level drivers of ethnic minorities’ experiences of harassment in Britain, particularly the role of community ethnic structure (ethnic composition, ethnic segregation and ethnic-change), socio-economic disadvantage, and residential stability. Drawing on an ethnic minority-booster sample of a large-scale UK panel dataset, we address several potential shortcomings with prior analyses to make novel contributions, including taking a multilevel approach, using self-reported harassment data and not police statistics, testing across multiple geographic-scales, and measuring both actual harassment experiences and fear of future harassment. Key findings suggest minorities in areas with a higher share of Whites report a higher likelihood of harassment and that living in more residentially segregated areas increases minorities’ likelihoods of harassment. We also find strong evidence that socio-economic disadvantage and residential instability foster harassment. We find that these same community-level drivers are also significant for minorities’ fear of harassment; in part, because experiences of harassment affect the victim’s fear of future harassment, but also because harassment experiences spill over to impact fear among a victim’s close social contacts. These findings have important implications for the theorising of harassment and support the inclusion of community-level measures in national policy to reduce harassment.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ethnic minorities, fear of harassment, harassment, multilevel models, segregation
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2022 08:25
Last Modified:	12 May 2023 01:30
DOI:	10.1080/1369183X.2021.1974823
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3148137