Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records

Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records

Global terrorist organizations attract radicalized individuals across borders and constitute a threat for both sending and receiving countries. We use unique personnel records from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh) to show that unemployment in sending countries is associated with the...

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Main Authors: Brockmeyer, Anne, Do, Quy-Toan, Joubert, Clement, Bhatia, Kartika, Abdel Jelil, Mohamed
Format: Journal Article
Published: MIT Press 2022
Subjects:
TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
VIOLENT EXTREMISM
UNEMPLOYMENT
MIGRATION COSTS
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36998
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spelling okr-10986-369982022-02-18T05:10:32Z Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records Brockmeyer, Anne Do, Quy-Toan Joubert, Clement Bhatia, Kartika Abdel Jelil, Mohamed TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM VIOLENT EXTREMISM UNEMPLOYMENT MIGRATION COSTS Global terrorist organizations attract radicalized individuals across borders and constitute a threat for both sending and receiving countries. We use unique personnel records from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh) to show that unemployment in sending countries is associated with the number of transnational terrorist recruits from these countries. The relationship is spatially heterogeneous, which is most plausibly attributable to travel costs. We argue that poor labor market opportunities generally push more individuals to join terrorist organizations, but at the same time limit their ability to do so when longer travel distances imply higher migration costs. 2022-02-17T17:41:15Z 2022-02-17T17:41:15Z 2022-01-25 Journal Article The Review of Economics and Statistics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36998 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank MIT Press Publications & Research :: Journal Article Middle East and North Africa Iraq
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topic TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
VIOLENT EXTREMISM
UNEMPLOYMENT
MIGRATION COSTS
spellingShingle TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
VIOLENT EXTREMISM
UNEMPLOYMENT
MIGRATION COSTS
Brockmeyer, Anne
Do, Quy-Toan
Joubert, Clement
Bhatia, Kartika
Abdel Jelil, Mohamed
Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records
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Iraq
description Global terrorist organizations attract radicalized individuals across borders and constitute a threat for both sending and receiving countries. We use unique personnel records from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh) to show that unemployment in sending countries is associated with the number of transnational terrorist recruits from these countries. The relationship is spatially heterogeneous, which is most plausibly attributable to travel costs. We argue that poor labor market opportunities generally push more individuals to join terrorist organizations, but at the same time limit their ability to do so when longer travel distances imply higher migration costs.
format Journal Article
author Brockmeyer, Anne
Do, Quy-Toan
Joubert, Clement
Bhatia, Kartika
Abdel Jelil, Mohamed
author_facet Brockmeyer, Anne
Do, Quy-Toan
Joubert, Clement
Bhatia, Kartika
Abdel Jelil, Mohamed
author_sort Brockmeyer, Anne
title Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records
title_short Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records
title_full Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records
title_fullStr Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records
title_full_unstemmed Transnational Terrorist Recruitment : Evidence from Daesh Personnel Records
title_sort transnational terrorist recruitment : evidence from daesh personnel records
publisher MIT Press
publishDate 2022
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36998
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