Publications: Refugees and hate crime

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Igarashi, A., 'Hate begets hate: anti-refugee violence increases anti-refugee attitudes in Germany' (2020), Ethnic and Racial Studies [online]
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Johnson, J., Sattler, D.N., Roberts, G. & Dierckx, K., 'Sexual Assault of a Rohingya Woman: Anti-Rohingya Statements Embolden Those High in Sexism to Report Anti-Victim and Pro-Perpetrator Reactions' (2024), Sex Roles [online]
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Joseph, S. & Anthony, R., 'Fault lines in civilizations and right-wing extremism: Germany’s experiment with domestic responsibility vs. international obligation' (2022), Austral: Brazilian Journal of Strategy and International Relations, 11(21), pp. 161-185
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Khatua, A. & Nejdl, W., 'Endorsement Analysis of Migrant-related Deliberations on YouTube: Prior to and during 2022 Ukrainian crisis' (2022), Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks, OASIS 2022 - Held in conjunction with the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2022, pp. 31-38
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Kopytowska, M., Grabowski, L. & Wozniak, J., 'Mobilizing against the Other: Cyberhate, refugee crisis and proximization' (2017), in M. Kopytowska (Ed.), Contemporary discourses of hate and radicalism across space and genres. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Kuhn, E. & Maxwell, R., 'Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany' (2024), Political Science Research and Methods [online]
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Latorre, J.P. & Amores, J.J., 'Topic modelling of racist and xenophobic YouTube comments. Analyzing hate speech against migrants and refugees spread through YouTube in Spanish' (2021), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 456-460
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Lee, S.H. & Kim, J., 'Demarcation and Refugee Hate: Framing of Refugees in News and its Impact on Hate Speech in Public Comments' (2024), Journalism Studies [online]
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Lippard, C.D. & McNamee, C.B., 'Are Refugees Really Welcome? Understanding Northern Ireland Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees' (2021), Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(3), pp. 3091-3112
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Løland, I., 'Between utopia and dystopia: Sectarianization through revolution and war in Syrian refugee narratives' (2019), Religions, 10(3) [online]
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Mata, J., Gualda, E., Pachón, V., Rebollo, C. & Domínguez, J.L., 'From data to detection: Developing a corpus and training language models for the identification of anti-refugee narratives in Spanish' (2025), Array, 28, 100526
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Mcdonald, N., 'Root Shock as Social Discipline Marginalization and Racism in Irish Social, Asylum, and Refugee Policies' (2024), Built Environment, 50(2), pp. 349–359
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McDuie-Ra, D., '‘Bangalore: An inconvenient truth’: Hate crime and the exodus' (2015), in Debating Race in Contemporary India (pp. 32-55). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Mohdeb, D., Laifa, M., Zerargui, F. & Benzaoui, O., 'Evaluating transfer learning approach for detecting Arabic anti-refugee/migrant speech on social media' (2022), Aslib Journal of Information Management [online]
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Naffi, N. & Davidson, A.-L., 'A group of youth learn why and how to disrupt online discourses and social media propaganda around Syrian refugees' (2020), Palgrave Studies in Educational Media, pp. 15-40
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Nisbet, B.G. & Vidal, N., 'Out of Reach: Social Connections and Their Role in Influencing Engagement Between Forcibly Displaced People and Police Scotland' (2025), Social Sciences, 14(5), 306
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Ozduzen, O., Korkut, U. & Ozduzen, C., '‘Refugees Are Not Welcome’: Digital Racism, Online Place-Making and the Evolving Categorization of Syrians in Turkey' (2020), New Media and Society [online]
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Palakodety, S., Khudabukhsh, A.R. & Carbonell, J.G., 'The Refugee Experience Online: Surfacing Positivity Amidst Hate' (2020), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 325, pp. 2925-2926
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Panagaki, N., Archakis, A. & Tsakona, V., 'Exploring primary school immigrant students’ soft hate speech: evidence from Greece' (2025), Critical Discourse Studies [online]
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Pradel, F., 'Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment' (2024), New Media and Society [online]
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Rahman, M.K. & Amin, M.K., 'Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar and Thoughts on Repatriation: Evidence From Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh' (2024), Indonesian Journal of International Law, 21(4), pp. 685–726, 5
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Rees, Y.P.M., Kurtenbach, S., Rees, J.H. & Zick, A., 'Intergroup contact and conflict in a climate of exclusion: An interview study in the ethnically super-homogenous German town of Bautzen' (2022), Journal of Applied Social Psychology [online]
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Renedo-Farpón, C., Alonso-Del-Barrio, E. & Díez-Garrido, M., 'Analysis of Misinformation about Migrants and Refugees in the Spanish Context and Its Contribution to Hate Speech: Study of Fact Checks by Newtral, Maldita, and Verificat | Análise da desinformação sobre pessoas migrantes e refugiadas no contexto espanhol e sua contribuição para o discurso de ódio: estudo dos desmentidos de Newtral, Maldita e Verificat' (2024), Palabra Clave, 27(4), e2748
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Riaz, S., 'Does inequality foster xenophobia? Evidence from the German refugee crisis' (2023), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies [online]
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Riaz, S., Bischof, D. & Wagner, M., 'Out-Group Threat and Xenophobic Hate Crimes: Evidence of Local Intergroup Conflict Dynamics between Immigrants and Natives' (2024), Journal of Politics, 86(4), pp. 1146–1161
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Rich, G.J., Kuriansky, J., Gielen, U.P. & Kaplin, D. (Eds.), 'Psychosocial Experiences and Adjustment of Migrants: Coming to the USA' (2023), Cambridge, MA: Academic Press
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Ruhani, A., Keshavarzi, S., Kızık, B. & Çakal, H., 'Formation of Hatred Emotions Toward Afghan Refugees in Iran: A Grounded Theory Study' (2023), Peace and Conflict [online]
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Sadeghi, S., 'Racial boundaries, stigma, and the re-emergence of “always being foreigners”: Iranians and the refugee crisis in Germany' (2018), Ethnic and Racial Studies [online]
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Said-Hung, E. & Diaz, J. M. (Eds.), 'News Media and Hate Speech Promotion in Mediterranean Countries' (2023), Hershey, PA: IGI Global
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Selvarajah, S., Kenar, N., Shaw, I.S. & Dhakal, P. (Eds.), 'Xenophobia in the Media: Critical Global Perspectives' (2024), London: Routledge
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Soral, W., Malinowska, K. & Bilewicz, M., 'The Role of Empathy in Reducing Hate Speech Proliferation. Two Contact-Based Interventions in Online and Off-line Settings' (2022), Peace and Conflict [online]
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Sorato, D., 'Using Word Embeddings for Immigrant and Refugee Stereotype Quantification in a Diachronic and Multilingual Setting' (2022), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3270, pp. 58-66
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Sosinski, M. & Sánchez García, F.J., '“Invasion effect” Populism and ideology in the Spanish political discourse on refugees. The Vox case | [“Efecto invasión” Populismo e ideología en el discurso político español sobre los refugiados. El caso de Vox]' (2022), Discurso y Sociedad, 16(1), pp. 149-172
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Šram, Z., 'The development of a 9-item scale to measure anti-immigrant attitude toward the Middle East refugees' (2020), Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology, 22(2), pp. 26-32
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Stroińska, M. & Cecchetto, V., 'Can There Be a ‘Safe Haven’ for Trauma Survivors in This Social Media Dominated World?' (2019), Trames, 23(2), pp. 223-238
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Takezawa, Y., Harrison, F.V. & Tanabe, A. (Eds.), 'Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism: Toward a New Global Dialogue' (2025), London: Routledge
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Uddin, N. & Arif, D. (Eds.), 'Refugees and the Media: Local and Global Perspectives' (2024), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
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Vázquez, M.F. & Pérez, F.S., 'Hate Speech in Spain Against Aquarius Refugees 2018 in Twitter' (2019), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 906-910
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Veiga, J.P. & Oliveira, L., 'Hate and Perceived Threats on the Resettlement of Afghan Refugees in Portugal' (2024), Societies, 14(7), 103
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Yabanci, B., '‘Overcoming prejudices and stigmatization towards refugees: A novel approach through deliberative citizen dialogues in Turkey' (2025), Migration Studies, 13(1), mnae051
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Yılmaz, F., Elmas, T. & Eröz, B., 'Twitter-based analysis of anti-refugee discourses in Türkiye' (2023), Discourse and Communication, 17(3), pp. 298-318
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Zamorano Llena, C., Stier, J. & Gray, B. (Eds.), 'Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe' (2023), London: Routledge
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