Immigrants’ Social Identity, Racial Hate Crimes and Public Backlash: Evidence from The "San Gennaro Massacre"

Maria Rosaria Carillo, Tiziana Venittelli () and Alberto Zazzaro ()
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Tiziana Venittelli: University of Naples Parthenope and GLO

CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy

Abstract: We study the impact of a racial attack in 2008 by a local Camorra clan against the African community near Naples on the social identity of African immigrants. We find that in Naples and in other municipalities where the degree of insecurity was high or where there was a strong public backlash in Italian civil society against racism and violence, Africans’ identification with Italy strengthened after the massacre, while in other municipalities it weakened. This heightened identification with Italy is persistent over time and is not accompanied by a weakening of ethnic identity.

Keywords: Immigrants’ identity; Racial discrimination; Hate-Crimes; Collective backlash, Cultural integration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 R23 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-07-01
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