Dozens of migrant-owned shops, stalls and businesses were attacked or burned over several nights in Belfast, while police rescued a two-month-old baby and said at least 27 people were left homeless.
Twelve officers were injured as masked gangs chased residents from homes, went door to door targeting foreigners, and forced one nurse of "a different skin colour" to flee into the hospital where she was due to start work.
The violence followed a June 8 knife attack in which a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder of Steven Ogilvie, but the report says loyalist gangs used that case as a rallying cry for broader racist attacks.
Northern Ireland's ethnic minority population is only about 3%, and migrants are deeply embedded in key sectors such as care, where 22% of workers come from outside the UK and Ireland.