"Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions"
Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri, Ian Preston

Abstract:: In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities and local economic conditions on the one hand, and racial harassment on the other. We argue that ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment not only through e ects on majority prejudice but also through the probability of minority individuals meeting majority individuals, and through the probability of hostility being expressed aggressively. In that sense, racial harassment of minority individuals is not simply a stronger form of hostility in attitudes. Spatial ethnic concentration can therefore a ect harassment probabilities in opposite ways to that in which it a ects hostile attitudes in the majority population. We demonstrate empirically that, in area of higher local ethnic concentration, experience of harassment decreases, even though hostility on the side of the majority population does not.

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