Immigration Policy and Terrorism: An Empirical Analysis

Seung-Whan Choi

Defence and Peace Economics, 2021, vol. 32, issue 3, 271-295

Abstract: Though populist politicians deem the terrorist threat as a reason for restrictive immigration policies, existing studies neglect to explore the systematic connection between immigration and security. This study offers a novel theoretical argument about the effect of terrorism on immigration policy and then conducts a first-cut empirical analysis. Based on a battery of statistical tests performed against pooled panel data on immigrant-receiving countries that are attractive to low-skilled workers due to high wages, this study shows evidence that terrorist threats are actually unrelated to restrictive immigration policies.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2019.1659577

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