Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Elsayed A.E.A. 
Author-Name: Grip A. de
Author-workplace-name: GSBE
Title: Terrorism and integration of Muslim immigrants
Abstract: We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants perceived integration, as measured by various indicators, decreased significantly relative to that of non-Muslims immigrants whereas there is no evidence for the existence of a negative trend in the integration of Muslims prior to the terrorist attacks. We further show that terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims those who arguably have a strong potential for integration.
Keywords: International Migration; Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification; 
Classification-JEL: F22; J15; Z13; .
Series:  Research Memorandum
Creation-Date: 2013
Number: 043
File-URL: http://pub.maastrichtuniversity.nl/4a19a8e4-6d75-4d2c-8ebf-26e36e52f1ed
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 791937
Handle: RePEc:unm:umagsb:2013043