Gender differences in the perception of immigration-related threats.

Highlights: [•] Gender moderates the effects of immigration-related specific threats (crime, etc.) on the perception of general threat. [•] Native women related the crime threat to a general threat more than did their male counterparts. [•] Among first-generation immigrants, gender moderated the effect of the cultural and out-group size threats. [•] Among second-generation immigrants, men and women differed with respect to the job, cultural and out-group size threats. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]