Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants

Ahmed Elsayed () and Andries de Grip

No 7530, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants' perceived integration, as measured by various indicators, decreased significantly relative to that of non-Muslims immigrants whereas there is no evidence for the existence of a negative trend in the integration of Muslims prior to the terrorist attacks. We further show that terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims – those who arguably have a strong potential for integration.

Keywords: integration; Muslim immigrants; terrorism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2013-07
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Published - revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 45 - 67

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