@article{THESIS,
      recid = {6016},
      author = {Karri, Amala},
      title = {Scapegoating, Social Disorganization, and the Causes of  Refugee-on-Refugee Violence},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2023-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {What motivates refugee-on-refugee violence? With  protracted displacement on the rise, it is increasingly  important to understand the causes of violence against  refugees in order to protect the most vulnerable people.  While most of the literature on refugee-related violence  focuses on organized violence, I approach  refugee-on-refugee violence at the individual level. I  argue that forced displacement leads to the development and  exacerbation of discriminatory attitudes, such as  homophobia and misogyny, because people look for scapegoats  to blame for their suffering. I predict that these  discriminatory attitudes, combined with the social  disorganization and immense stress caused by forced  displacement, are responsible for refugee-on-refugee  violence and thus expect most violence to be identity-based  or domestic violence. Looking at reports from 22  refugee-hosting countries from 1996 to 2015, I find that  most reports of refugee-on-refugee violence with sufficient  evidence to identify the motivations are identity-based or  domestic violence. },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6016},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.6016},
}