Immigrant criminality

Immigrant criminality

Immigrant criminality (foreigner criminality, foreigner delinquency) refers to delinquency perpetrated by non-naturalized residents of foreign origin within a given country.

Allegations of heightened levels of immigrant criminality can serve as a propaganda item in "nativist" opposition to immigration.

In Switzerland, the term " _de. Ausländerkriminalität" ("foreigner criminality") since the 1990s has become a politically charged term, with the populist "black sheep" campaign for the "initiative for the extradition of criminal foreigners" of the Swiss People's Party making international headlines in September 2007.

In The Netherlands, the high rate of criminality amongst the immigrant population was one of the main reasons behind the success of the late anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn and immigration and islam-sceptics Rita Verdonk and Geert Wilders in the early 21st century.

ee also

*Opposition to immigration
*DREAM Act
*Illegal immigration to the United States
*Demographics of Switzerland#Delinquency
*Xenophobia
*"Überfremdung"
*Race and crime

External links

*Rubén G. Rumbaut; Walter A. Ewing, [http://borderbattles.ssrc.org/Rumbault_Ewing/ The Myth of Immigrant Criminality] special report for the Immigration Policy Center, 2007.


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