Threat,prejudice and the impact of the riots in England |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada;2. School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom;1. Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;2. Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA;3. Guangxi Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Nanning, Guangxi, China;4. Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;1. Centre for Sociological Research, University of Leuven, Belgium;2. Centre for Political Science, University of Leuven, Belgium;1. University of Miami, United States;2. Ohio State University, United States |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines how a major outbreak of rioting in England in 2011 impacted on prejudice toward three minority groups in Britain: Muslims, Black British and East Europeans. We test whether the riots mobilized individuals by increasing feelings of realistic and symbolic threat and ultimately prejudice, or whether the riots galvanized those already concerned about minorities, thus strengthening the relationship between threat and prejudice. We conducted three national surveys – before, after and one year on from the riots – and show that after the riots individuals were more likely to perceive threats to society’s security and culture, and by extension express increased prejudice toward Black British and East European minorities. We find little evidence of a galvanizing impact. One year later, threat and prejudice had returned to pre-riots levels; however, results from a survey experiment show that priming memories of the riots can raise levels of prejudice. |
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| Keywords: | Prejudice Riots Minorities Intergroup relations Survey experiment Threat |
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