ABSTRACT

A burgeoning body of work examines the connection between migration and security. Studies link migration to an increased volume of terrorism in destination states. More recent work examines the humanitarian consequences for political migrants and shows that refugees confront repression by state agents in recipient states. We argue that these consequences can generalize to society writ large and may point to a broader erosion of human rights. We build on and expand this line of work by examining the effects of migration on the abuse of physical integrity rights in destination states. Using a cross-national longitudinal sample from 1980 to 2010, we show that while overall migration has no pernicious effects, migration flows from terror-prone states are associated with reduced physical integrity rights provision in destination states. Contrary to intuition, we find that migration from culturally dissimilar origin states has no negative consequences. These results refine our understanding of the migration-security nexus by showing that fears over terrorism drive the deleterious consequences of migration. Our paper also contributes to the human rights literature by demonstrating that the link between migrants and terrorism affects the rights not just of foreigners but also those of destination citizens.

摘要

新兴的工作机构正在研究迁移与安全之间的联系。研究将移民与目的地国家恐怖主义的增加联系起来。最近的工作研究了政治移民的人道主义后果，并表明难民在受援国受到国家特工的压制。我们认为，这些后果可能在社会上广泛泛滥，并可能表明人权受到更大范围的侵蚀。通过检查迁移对目的地国滥用物理完整性权的影响，我们在此工作的基础上进行了扩展。使用1980年至2010年的跨国纵向样本，我们显示，虽然总体移民没有有害影响，但来自恐怖多发国家的移民流与目的地国减少的人身完整权提供了联系。与直觉相反，我们发现从文化不同的起源州移民没有负面影响。这些结果表明，人们对恐怖主义的恐惧推动了移徙的有害后果，从而完善了我们对移徙与安全关系的理解。我们的论文还通过证明移民与恐怖主义之间的联系不仅影响外国人的权利，而且影响目的地公民的权利，也为人权文献做出了贡献。