Anti-Asian Xenophobia, Hate Crime Victimization, and Fear of Victimization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anti-Asian Xenophobia, Hate Crime Victimization, and Fear of Victimization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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DOI：
10.1177/08862605221086651
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发表时间：
2022-05-11
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Wenger, Marin R.
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作者：
Lantz, Brendan;Wenger, Marin R.
虽然世界卫生组织建议不要使用种族色彩来提及COVID-19，但随着COVID-19大流行的蔓延，许多人轻蔑地称之为“武汉病毒”、“中国病毒”和其他术语。在这种情况下，联邦调查局警告警察机构，在大流行的最初几个月，反亚洲仇恨犯罪预计会增加。但是，尽管一些研究人员和媒体详细讨论了这些潜在的增长，但很少有研究能够直接评估大流行期间反亚裔仇恨和偏见受害的性质。此后，当前的研究直接考察了COVID-19大流行期间美国反亚裔偏见和受害情况的变化。具体而言，这项研究分别对3，163名非亚裔和575名亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民进行了调查。第一项研究考察了非亚裔样本中反亚裔仇外心理的流行程度，并评估了这些偏见态度在受访者特征中的差异，而第二项研究则考察了亚裔样本在大流行期间偏见经历的变化。研究结果表明，反亚裔情绪无处不在，这表明那些对大流行病表示更大恐惧的人报告了更多的偏见态度，以及这些模式中的重要种族差异。研究结果还显示了大流行病对反亚裔偏见受害者个人经历的影响程度，例如超过三分之一的亚洲受访者报告在大流行病期间受到偏见受害，超过一半的亚洲受访者报告说他们认识受害者。这些模式对解决与COVID-19相关的仇恨犯罪具有重要意义。
While the World Health Organization advised against referring to COVID-19 using racial overtones, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, many disparagingly called it the "Wuhan virus," the "Chinese virus," and other terms. In this context, the FBI warned police agencies about an expected increase in anti-Asian hate crimes during the early months of the pandemic. But, while some researchers and media outlets discussed these potential increases at length, very few studies have been able to directly assess the nature of anti-Asian hate and bias victimization during the pandemic. Following this, the current study directly examines variation in anti-Asian bias and victimization in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this research presents results from two studies using a survey of 3,163 non-Asian and 575 Asian American and Pacific Islander respondents, respectively. The first study examines the prevalence of anti-Asian xenophobia among the non-Asian sample and assesses differences in these prejudicial attitudes across respondent characteristics, while the second study examines variation in experiences with bias during the pandemic among the Asian sample. The results illustrate the ubiquity of anti-Asian sentiment, suggesting that those who indicate greater fear of the pandemic report more prejudicial attitudes, as well as important racial differences in these patterns. The results also demonstrate the extent to which the pandemic has impacted individual experiences with anti-Asian bias victimization, such that more than one-third of Asian respondents report bias victimization during the pandemic, and more than half of Asian respondents report that they know someone who has been victimized. These patterns have important implications for addressing COVID-19-related hate crime moving forward.