Asylum Migration, Borders, and Terrorism in a Structural Gravity Model

Abstract: In this article, we examine the impact of terrorist attacks on asylum-related migration flows. So far, the literature that examines the "push factors" such as terrorism that explain forced migration has omitted the fact that the vast majority of people forced to flee typically do so toward other locations within the country. The novel feature of our research is the estimation of a structural gravity equation that includes both international migration and internally displaced persons (IDP), a theoretically consistent framework that allows us to identify country-specific variables such as terror attacks. For that purpose, we use information on the number of asylum applications, the number of IDP, and the number of terrorist attacks in each country for a sample of 119 origin developing countries and 141 destination countries over 2009-2018. The empirical results reveal several interesting and policy-relevant traits. Firstly, forced migration abroad is still minimal compared to IDP, bu

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Politics and Governance ; 9 (2021) 4 ; 146-158

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Carril-Caccia, Federico ; Paniagua, Jordi ; Requena, Francisco

Further information

• DOI: 10.17645/pag.v9i4.4438
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022101517033118737277
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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