RT Article
T1 Fear Among the Feared: Arab Americans’ Fear of Crime in an Ethnic Enclave Community
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 69
IS 3
SP 630
OP 655
A1 Zaatut, Amarat
A2 Jacobsen, Shannon K. 1965-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839615605
AB Drawing on racial threat hypothesis and in-depth interviews with first- and second-generation Arab immigrants, this study explores Arab immigrants? perceptions of risk and fear of crime in an ethnic enclave community. We find that Arab immigrants? fear of crime is shaped by the unique context in which they live, with this particular population perceiving members of other minority groups as the greatest threat to their culture, community, and safety. This study extends the minority threat perspective, which typically highlights the majority group?s fear of immigrants and other minorities, by examining the inverse of this relationship. Specifically, what and who do immigrants fear at a time when they are perceived as one of the most threatening populations in the U.S.?
K1 Communities and crime
K1 fear of crime and victimization
K1 Immigration
K1 Perceived risk
K1 Qualitative methods
K1 Race and ethnicity
DO 10.1177/00111287221098580