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The Quantitative Analysis of Terrorism and Immigration: An Initial Exploration 

Authors: Robert S. Leiken - Robert S. Leiken is Director of the Immigration and National Security Program at the Nixon Center in Washington, DC and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.ab; Steven Brooke - Steven Brooke is a Research Associate at the Nixon Center.c
Affiliations:   a Nixon Center, Washington, DC
b Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA
c Nixon Center, Washington, DC, USA
DOI: 10.1080/09546550600880294
Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year
Published in: journal Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 18, Issue 4 December 2006 , pages 503 - 521
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Abstract

This article uses immigration and other biographical data to refute much of the conventional wisdom about the relationship between terrorism and immigration. Using a database created from the biographical data of 373 terrorists, we have established a number of significant findings. Over forty percent of our database is made up of Western Nationals. Second, despite widespread alarms raised over terrorist infiltration from Mexico, we found no terrorist presence in Mexico and no terrorists who entered the U.S. from Mexico. Third, we found a sizeable terrorist presence in Canada and a number of Canadian-based terrorists who have entered the U.S. In addition to illuminating the terrorist networks entrenched in the West, this paper is also an attempt to advance the field of terrorism studies by taking a quantitative approach to data analysis.
Keywords: Al Qaeda; Europe; immigration; quantitative; statistics; terrorism
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