THE EFFECTS OF NEIGHBORHOOD SATISFACTION ON PERCEPTION OF SAFETY AMONG REFUGEES FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION |
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| Authors: | L. Allen Furr D. Mark Austin Sarah E. Cribbs Steven H. Smoger |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Louisville , Louisville, Kentucky, USA allenfurr@louisville.edu;3. University of Louisville , Louisville, Kentucky, USA;4. University of Oregon , Eugene, Oregon, USA;5. Veterans Administration , Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Neighborhood and urban conditions have long been shown to have a strong impact on residents’ feelings of safety and fear or crime. Researchers, however, have not tested the relationship between neighborhood conditions and perception of safety among refugees groups. Comparisons between a general sample of Louisville residents and refugees from the former Soviet Union indicated that refugees were less satisfied with their neighborhoods than the general sample, yet had significantly higher levels of perception of safety. These findings are contrary of previous research that has shown that less satisfaction is associated with lower perception of safety and are explained in terms of the contextual shifts in the management of risk. The relative and subjective meanings of social change may be of greater importance in understanding refugees’ perception of safety than relationships to immediate neighborhood settings. |
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