Fear in the Streets: How Mass Immigration Has Changed Women’s Lives, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
There was a time when women in Europe, even young women, could walk their neighbourhoods at dusk without fear. That time is fading. In the Netherlands today, nearly half of all women aged 15 to 25 regularly avoid parts of their own local areas, streets they know well, corners they once crossed without hesitation. This is not a marginal figure. It is a silent referendum on safety, and it reveals a truth that most officials, media elites, and even feminist commentators are reluctant to admit: women are increasingly afraid to walk the streets of Western Europe, and a primary reason is mass immigration.
The data is stark. Forty-five percent of young Dutch women report taking detours to avoid places they perceive as dangerous, more than twice the rate of young men in the same age group. The pattern persists across all age brackets. Women over 65 avoid answering the door at night, women in their thirties won't walk certain paths after dark, and women living alone report a constant undercurrent of anxiety. And while all people living alone exhibit more caution, women are consistently more fearful regardless of their household status.
But why? Why, in one of the most liberal, prosperous, and socially advanced nations on earth, are women feeling less safe? The common answer is "fear of crime." But that begs the deeper question: what kind of crime, and who is driving it?
The uncomfortable answer, backed by years of suppressed statistics, community anecdotes, and independent reporting, is that Western Europe has imported not just workers and asylum seekers, but also a disproportionate number of young men from cultures with radically different attitudes toward women, violence, and public space. In cities across the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and France, the demographic composition has shifted dramatically in just a generation. The result has been a rise in harassment, intimidation, and sex-related crimes, particularly in working-class and migrant-heavy neighbourhoods where women once felt safe.
No one wants to say this aloud. It offends modern sensibilities. It sounds like xenophobia. But truth is not bigoted, it's simply inconvenient to those who would rather manage a narrative than confront consequences. The Netherlands is not unique. In Sweden, now infamous for its rise in gang-related violence and sexual assault, even liberal politicians have admitted, too late, that integration has failed. In Germany, the mass assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve 2015 by men of North African and Arab background were a warning sign ignored by much of the media. Women have noticed, even if public institutions pretend otherwise. The Netherlands data highlights a stark gender disparity in perceived safety. Young women (15–25) are over twice as likely as men to detour around "risky" areas, with 45% versus 21.5% taking precautions. Across older age groups (25–65), one-third of women avoid unsafe places, compared to 19% of men. At home, 70% of women over 65 and 55–63% of younger women avoid answering the door at night, versus one-third of men. These patterns reflect broader European trends. A 2021 End Violence Against Women study found 50% of UK women feel unsafe walking alone after dark in quiet streets, compared to 14% of men, with 80% feeling unsafe in parks. In France, 44% of women aged 16–34 report street harassment, per the same study, and in Italy, 77% of street rapes in Paris were attributed to foreigners by far-Right figures, though this lacks corroboration.
Women's Safety Initiative director Jess Gill, argue that "extremist mass immigration" has made streets unsafe, citing data showing illegal migrants in England and Wales are "24 times more likely" to be imprisoned than citizens, with 10,838 foreign criminals incarcerated by March 2025. Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Prey (2021) contends that mass migration, particularly of young men from Muslim-majority countries, has eroded women's safety, pointing to "no-go" areas in cities like Brussels and London where women avoid public spaces. X posts echo this, with users like @jonatanpallesen claiming, "There is no more misogynistic policy than the current mass immigration to Europe," citing incidents like Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK.
Specific cases fuel the narrative. The 2015–16 Cologne New Year's Eve assaults, where over 1,200 women reported sexual attacks by groups of men, many identified as North African or Middle Eastern migrants, marked a turning point. German police data confirmed 881 sexual offenses, with 47% of suspects being foreign nationals. Similarly, Sweden's sexual assault rate, the second-highest in Europe, correlates with its high Muslim immigration rate, per a 2020 European Parliament question, though causation remains unproven. In the UK, 708 charges against 312 asylum seekers in hotels, including rape, highlight localised issues.
This fear translates into "safety work," constant risk assessments that restrict women's freedom. Women cross streets, avoid eye contact, or carry keys as weapons, practices rooted in the pervasive threat of gender-based violence. A 2023 Medium post by Lina AbiRafeh describes routine harassment, noting, "The impact on our mental and physical health … cannot be underestimated."
What's most damning is that the very people who claim to defend women's rights have grown strangely silent. Feminist organisations that once marched against street harassment now tread carefully, anxious not to be seen as feeding Right-wing narratives. The result is that women, especially working-class women, have been abandoned. They are left to avoid, to reroute, to stay silent. Their freedom has been traded for multicultural virtue-signalling.
And this is the real cost of mass immigration when done without cultural integration or meaningful vetting. It's not just an economic issue or a question of border control. It's a question of liberty. When nearly half of young women in a modern, Western democracy feel they cannot safely walk down the street, something profound has been lost. And that something is not simply "comfort." It is ownership of public space. It is the very principle of equality and autonomy that progressive societies claim to prize.
To speak this truth is not to hate immigrants. It is to demand accountability from the political class who, in the name of compassion or convenience, refused to secure the most basic condition of freedom: safety. Until that is restored, women will continue to navigate their own cities like they are warzones, not homes. And no amount of euphemism or ideological contortion can hide that betrayal.
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