Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part I General Introduction and Theoretical Framework -- 1 Introduction -- The Argument in Brief -- Existing Arguments -- Studying Immigrant Conflict -- Studying Immigrant Conflict within and across Countries -- Empirical Approach -- Plan of the Book -- 2 A Theory of Immigrant Conflict -- Immigrant Conflict -- Economic Scarcity and Immigrant Political Power -- National Immigration Regimes and Local Economic Scarcity -- National Political Institutions, Political Behavior, and Immigrant Political Power -- A Theory of Immigrant Conflict -- Immigrant-Native Conflict -- Immigrant-State Conflict -- Assumptions, Concepts, and Scope Conditions -- Assumptions -- Concept: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities -- Concepts: Violence -- Concepts: Mobilization -- Scope Conditions -- Implications -- Conclusion -- Part II Introduction to Part II -- 3 Patterns of Immigrant Conflict in Great Britain -- Immigrant Conflict and Large-Scale Violence: Patterns and Puzzles -- Immigrant Conflict and Economic Conditions -- Immigrant Conflict across Groups -- Explaining Immigrant Conflict -- Immigration without Immigration Policy -- Immigrant Voters -- The Economic Basis of Immigrant Conflict -- The Political Basis of Immigrant Conflict -- Summary and Conclusion -- 4 Dynamics of Racist Violence -- The Problem of Racist Violence -- Explaining Racist Crime: Existing Theoretical Approaches -- Individual-Level Explanations -- Contextual Explanations -- Racist Violence and Racist Voting -- The Determinants of Racist Violence -- Data and Variables -- Statistical Model and Results -- Robustness Checks and Extensions -- Conclusion and Discussion -- Part III Introduction to Part III -- Previewing the Cases -- Addressing Competing Explanations.

5 Immigrant-Native Conflict in Two London Boroughs -- Tower Hamlets -- Tower Hamlets Political Landscape -- Electoral History -- Electoral Competition and Bangladeshi Votes -- Bangladeshi Demands -- White Backlash -- The Local Entrenchment of Racist Violence -- Institutional Change and the Escalation of Immigrant-Native Conflict -- Ealing -- Ealing's Political Landscape -- Electoral History -- Electoral Competition and Indian Votes -- Indian Demands -- From Conflict to Coexistence -- Explaining Interethnic Peace -- Conclusion -- 6 Two Faces of Immigrant Conflict in Two Midlands Cities -- Birmingham -- Birmingham's Political Landscape -- Electoral History -- Electoral Competition and the Immigrant Vote -- Immigrant Needs and Demands -- Native Reaction -- Immigrant Backlash against the State -- Leicester -- Leicester's Political Landscape -- Electoral History -- Electoral Competition and the Indian Vote -- Immigrant Needs and Demands -- White Backlash -- Turnaround -- Reductions in Economic Scarcity -- Conclusion -- Part IV Introduction to Part IV -- 7 Economic Integration, Political Exclusion, and Immigrant Conflict in Germany -- The Economic Logic of Guest-Worker Immigration and the Prevention of Resource Competition -- Immigrant Economic Integration in Hard Times: Germans First -- Employment and Housing: Germans First -- Immigrant Policy and the Prevention of Immigrant-Native Conflict -- National Salience amid Local Inaction -- Between Exit and Integration: State Responses to Immigrant Economic Disadvantage -- The Absence of Immigrant-State Conflict -- Exit, Economic Integration, and the Threat of Unrest -- The Guest-Worker Regime in Context -- Immigrant Economic Integration in Germany and Great Britain -- The Demise of the Guest-Worker Logic -- New Types of Immigrants, New Types of Conflict.

The Immigration Regimes of Aussiedler and Asylum-Seeker Migration -- Native Backlash -- Changes in Immigration Regimes and the Decline in Immigrant-Native Conflict -- Conclusion -- 8 Immigration and Conflict across Countries -- Immigrant Conflict in France -- Immigration Regime -- Economic Integration -- Political Incorporation -- The Two Faces of Immigrant Conflict -- Citizenship, Immigration, and Economic Developments across Europe -- Trends in Citizenship and Immigrant Political Power -- Changing Immigration Regimes and the Economic Characteristics of Immigrants -- Economic Developments and Local Resource Scarcity -- Implications for Immigrant Conflict -- 9 Conclusion -- Reviewing the Argument -- Concluding Implications -- Appendix A Coding Large-Scale Instances of Immigrant-Native and Immigrant-State Violence -- Appendix B Data and Variables: Immigrant Turnout -- Sample Used in Models -- Dependent Variables -- Independent Variables -- References -- Index.