13:15 - 15:30
Friday-Panel
Chair/s:
Kerim Kavakli
Discussant/s:
Sergi Pardos-Prado
Meeting Room P

Kerim Kavakli
Refugee Evictions and the Spread of Refugee-Native Clashes: Evidence from Turkey

Andrea Carla Bianculli, Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar
The Regional Governance of Immigrant Reception: Mercosur before the presence of Venezuelans in South America

William Allen, Isabel Ruiz
Colombian Attitudes Towards Venezuelan Migrants: Conjoint Experimental Evidence from a South-South Mixed Migration Context

Anna Getmansky, Tolga Sinmazdemir, Konstantinos Matakos
Humanitarian Concerns and Acceptance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Refugee Evictions and the Spread of Refugee-Native Clashes: Evidence from Turkey
Kerim Kavakli
Bocconi University

When does violence break out between refugees and natives in a host nation? Existing research on this topic is mostly focused on advanced industrial Western countries even though most refugees live in the non-Western developing world. We analyze this question with a new data set on native-refugee clashes between 2014 and 2018 in Turkey, which hosts the largest refugee population in the world. Our main finding is that clashes tend to spread and local authorities' response previous clashes is significantly related to the probability of clash diffusion. We present qualitative and quantitative evidence suggesting that potential rioters observe the outcomes of past clashes and adjust their behavior accordingly. When the state concedes to native rioters in one place by evicting refugees, new riots break out elsewhere aiming to provoke the state into sending more refugees away. Our findings imply that coordinating local responses to native-refugee violence may help lower the overall level of violence. More broadly, this research suggests that local authorities play an important role regarding violence between refugees and natives.