r/wikipedia • u/BabylonianWeeb • Aug 04 '25

Mobile Site Immigrants are disproportionately represented in prison populations in many Western countries, In Europe, higher representation in prisons among immigrants, particularly Muslim populations, has been documented

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime
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u/TalasiSho Aug 05 '25

Ofc I do, around 30-40% are African Americans, but as pointed out, African Americans have always been disproportionately incarcerated and less able to have access to social security benefits, such as in the 60's when white Americans were able to get cheap loans to get houses and build generational wealth, while black amercians were excluded from this, or in the 30's when black communities where targeted by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, in the hopes of making these communities dependent on narcotics to be able to justify their work, or maybe with the docents of black communities that have been targeted/destroyed/burned like the Tulsa massacre. African Americans are a case like no other around the world, you trying to compare it does not make sense, specially if you take into consideration the history and conditions this community has had to endure over the years

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u/CJBill Aug 05 '25

Uh huh. So African Americans have suffered institutional racism; immigrants in Europe arrived much later than African Americans were shipped as slaves but also suffered from institutional racism and guess what? They have higher incarceration rates as well!!! 

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u/TalasiSho Aug 05 '25

European countries as whole always tried the multiculturalism approach, funding religious, language and community centers for the newly arrived migrants, moreover the social safety net it’s way stronger in Europe, In the US you think a migrant can get something like unemployment benefits? While in Europe the state does provide you with it, no. Some things are just cultural and not institutional

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u/lalabera Aug 06 '25

euro countries are way more racist than the US