Pathways to Violence Against Migrants traces the different pathways,
or combinations of causal mechanisms, that lead from nonviolent
opposition to migration into anti-migrant violence. Applying the
conceptual apparatus of social movement studies (frames, relations,
opportunities, and collective emotions), the book develops six
distinct sequences of causal mechanisms. These show how violence can
develop through rapid processes of moral outrage and far-right
mobilisation, through long processes of uneven demobilisation and
escalation or independently of any nonviolent protest at all. The six
pathways are developed through a comparative, mixed-methods study of
81 cases of anti-migrant violence in Sweden between 2012 and 2017. The
cases involve various actors (ranging from unorganised youth gangs and
village associations to neo-Nazi organisations) as well as very
different types and intensities of violence (from death threats to
arson attacks and bombings). Demonstrating the diversity of pathways
to violence in a restricted setting and against a restricted category
of targets, the book argues strongly against reducing the causes of
violence to individual pathology, to ideological “extremism”, or
to any single explanatory model. This book will be of interest to
researchers of political violence, the far right, anti-migrant
politics, racism, and social movements.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000968668
Publisert
2023
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter