The Implications of Globalization for Patterns of Hate Crime

• In Event: Hate Crime Offending

Abstract

The impacts of globalization on inter-group tensions have been largely neglected in the hate crime scholarship. It is arguable that an array of patterns associated with globalization have demonstrable consequences for targeted violence, either directly or indirectly as enabling factors, as they shift relationships between and among individuals, groups, and states. Globalization has spurred new intercultural conflicts, and stoked the flames of existing ones, often along lines of ethnic and racialized identities, inter alia. While the connections are myriad, I focus here on four distinct issues implicated by the processes of globalization: threatened nations; weakened/failed states; attenuated racial and ethnic divisions; and border “transgressions.”

Author

• Barbara Perry, University of Ontario Institute of Technology