ABSTRACT

The security debate concerning the recent wave of migrants into Europe has been contentious. This article examines the impact of recent migration flows into Europe and assesses the veracity of political rhetoric that migrants from Muslim states were reputedly responsible for the uptick in terrorist attacks. After conducting a series of quantitative tests that control for a variety of factors, we find little evidence that the increase in the number of migrants corresponded to an increase in terrorism during the European crisis. Our findings, therefore, contain important implications in terms of migration policy and counterterrorism tactics.

中文翻译：

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欧洲移民与恐怖主义：人道主义危机、政治言论还是务实政策？

摘要

关于最近涌入欧洲的移民潮的安全辩论一直存在争议。本文考察了近期移民流入欧洲的影响，并评估了来自穆斯林国家的移民据称对恐怖袭击事件的增加负责的政治言论的真实性。在进行了一系列控制各种因素的定量测试后，我们发现几乎没有证据表明移民人数的增加与欧洲危机期间恐怖主义的增加相对应。因此，我们的发现对移民政策和反恐策略具有重要意义。