This paper examines the relationship between internal displacement and crime in Colombia. The authors consider five categories of crime: homicides, kidnapping, personal injuries, automobile theft and residence burglary. The main explanatory variable is the number of...
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Followed by Violence: Forced Immigration and Homicides
This paper examines the causal impact of inflows of internal displaced people (IDP) on homicides in Colombian host municipalities during the period 1999 to 2014. A priori, the authors suggest that IDP inflows might increase crime because: (a) IDPs were exposed to...
The Refugee Wave to Germany and its Impact on Crime
This paper provides empirical evidence on the crime impacts of the recent refugee influx to Germany from 2010 to 2015. The author considers asylum seekers and recognized refugees separately, since asylum seekers are subject to dispersal policies and locational...
Not Welcome Anymore: The Effect of Electoral Incentives on the Reception of Refugees
This paper investigates how electoral incentives affect the reception of refugees in Italy. Since immigration has been shown to have an impact on electoral outcomes, and given that politicians can anticipate voters’ reactions, the author hypothesizes that governments...
Refugees and Elections: The Effects of Syrians on Voting Behavior in Turkey
There were 3.5 million Syrian refugees in Turkey as of February 2018. Overall Syrian refugees comprise 4.4 percent of the total population of Turkey but there is substantial variation in the number of refugees and their ratio to the local population across provinces....
Refugee Migration and Election Outcomes
This paper estimates the causal effect of refugee migration on voting outcomes in parliamentary and municipal elections in Denmark. The authors also examine how particular characteristics of a population augment or diminish the effects of refugee allocation on...
No Country for Asylum Seekers? How Short-term Exposure to Refugees Influences Attitudes and Voting Behavior in Hungary
This paper investigates how short-term contact with refugees during the 2015 European refugee crisis affected political behavior in Hungary. Refugees passed through Hungary in an irregular manner and their interactions with locals were transient (many Hungarians were...
Waking Up the Golden Dawn: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Increase Support for Extreme-right Parties
This article examines the impact of a large influx of refugees on natives’ political attitudes and behavior in Greece, which received more than half of all refugees arriving in Europe in 2015. Most refugees left the islands of first arrival within a very short period,...
Dismantling the “Jungle”: Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France
This paper investigates whether the relocation of approximately 6,400 migrants from the Calais “Jungle” to temporary migrant-centers (CAOs) in France affected votes for the Front National in the 2017 presidential election. The assignment of CAOs was not random, and...
Contact Matters: Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right
This paper investigates how exposure to refugees in Upper Austria affected voting for the far right Freedom Party of Austria. In state elections in September 2015, at the peak of the refugee crisis, the Freedom Party doubled its share of the vote with nationalistic,...