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Backlash 9/11
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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Terrorism & Backlash.read more
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Historical Events and Spaces of Hate: Hate Crimes against Arabs and Muslims in Post-9/11 America
TL;DR: This article investigated the variation in hate crime offending against Arabs and Muslims across U.S. counties in the months before and after 9/11 and found that hate crimes targeting Arab and Muslims increased dramatically after the terrorist attacks, although the structural determinants and geographic concentration of these crimes remained largely consistent after the attacks.
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Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism
TL;DR: Zepeda-Millan as mentioned in this paper analyzes the background, course, and impacts of this unprecedented wave of protests, highlighting their unique local, national, and demographic dynamics, finding that because of the particular ways the issue of immigrant illegality was racialized, federally proposed anti-immigrant legislation (H.R. 4437) helped transform Latinos' sense of latent group membership into the racial group consciousness that incited their engagement in large-scale collective action.
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Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of The Arab Spring
TL;DR: This paper used data on Libyan and Syrian activism in the United States and Great Britain to identify the mechanisms by which Libyans and Syrians overcame these effects during the 2011 Arab Spring and demonstrated how states exercise coercive power across borders and the conditions under which diasporas mobilize to publicly and collectively challenge home-country regimes.
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The Long-Run Effect of 9/11: Terrorism, Backlash, and the Assimilation of Muslim Immigrants in the West
TL;DR: This article investigated whether the 9/11 attacks will have a long-term impact by altering the fertility and assimilation rate of immigrants from Muslim countries in the United States by exploiting variation across states in the number of hate crimes against Muslims in the wake of the attacks.
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Muslims in America
TL;DR: This paper found that four in 10 Americans have an unfavorable view of Islam, five in 10 believe Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, and six in 10 believed Islam is very different from their own religion.