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Vincenzo Bove has recently given a seminar on "International Migration and the Security Environment" at the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC).

Seminar Abstract:

The recent decades have seen a substantial increase in global migration. This phenomenon critically challenges the territorial state as a bounded entity and it is a key issue on the security agenda of many countries. We explore two consequences of migration on national and international security: terrorism and military intervention. On one hand, migration inflows can lead to the diffusion of policies, ideologies and behavior, including terrorism. Using spatial-econometric analyses, we find that terrorism “at home” increases with a larger number of immigrants from countries with terrorism, suggesting that migrants can be an important vehicle through which terrorism diffuses. Yet, our results also indicate that migrant inflows per se actually lead to a lower level of terrorist attacks. On the other hand, migrants can be a bridge between homeland and hostland and shape foreign policies of the host country. Using a nearly-exhaustive dataset on civil wars and military interventions since 1945, we find that migrants act a conduit for foreign military intervention across country pairs.