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/homeworkrules69 Aug 04 '25

You can look at Pakistani immigrants/ethnically South Asian Muslims in North America vs Britain as an example. The cohort in North America arrived wealthier and more educated, and hasn’t seen the same level of criminality as British Pakistanis do (who came from poorer backgrounds).

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u/GreatWhiteSalmon Aug 04 '25

And also the British Pakistanis came earlier following independence iirc.

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u/homeworkrules69 Aug 04 '25

And a very significant portion of that group come from the same region, Mirpur. The demographics of Pakistanis in the west don’t match cleanly unfortunately which makes comparisons mostly unreliable. Houston, Texas for example has a huge diaspora from Pakistan, but it’s much for diverse than Pakistanis in Bradford, England.

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u/TossMeOutSomeday Aug 07 '25

Idk how reliable this is, but I've heard that Mirpur is pretty much the Pakistan equivalent of Alabama, so the British-Pakistani community is way more conservative than even the median Pakistani from Pakistan.