This R data package contains a georeferenced dataset on categorised events of anti-refugee violence and social unrest in Germany from 2014 onwards. arvig is based on information published by the civil society project Mut Gegen Rechte Gewalt.

For more information read our 2016 background paper

“Refugees Welcome? A Dataset on Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany” in Research & Politics 3(4).

Installation

You can install arvig from GitHub with

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("davben/arvig")

and use the dataset via

library(arvig)
data("arvig")