Terrorism

Ben Saul

Chapter 98 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 569-574 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Despite political anxieties about migrants as terrorist threats, migrants are far more commonly victims than perpetrators of terrorism. There is no overarching international legal framework addressing the terrorism-migration nexus. Instead, a patchwork of international norms applies to different facets of the relationships between terrorism and migration. These include regimes governing terrorism and transnational crime, refugees, human rights, armed conflict, and internally displaced persons. International counter-terrorism law focuses on the prevention and suppression of transnational terrorist movements. Refugee law, human rights law, norms on internal displacement, and international humanitarian law all operate to protect persons displaced by terrorist violence, while accommodating security concerns relating to movement, particularly in conflict settings. While the regimes are broadly adequate – apart from the lack of an international definition of terrorism – national implementation has tended to excessively securitize migration, adversely affecting displaced victims of terrorism without necessarily enhancing international security from terrorism.

Keywords: Terrorism; Migration; Refugees; Armed conflict; Displacement; Foreign fighters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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