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5 - Refugee Waves and Crime: Evidence from EU Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2019

Francesco Fasani ,
Giovanni Mastrobuoni ,
Emily G. Owens  and
Paolo Pinotti
Francesco Fasani
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
Affiliation:
University of Essex
Emily G. Owens
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Paolo Pinotti
Affiliation:
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan
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Summary

The European Union has experienced a major refugee crisis in the last few years. The total number of individuals with recognized refugee status who reside in one of the EU15 countries increased from approximately 1 million in 2014 to 1.8 million in 2016. Over the same period, the number of asylum applications received by EU15 countries increased from 500,000 in 2014 to more than 1 million in 2015 and to 1.1 million in 2016, reaching an unprecedented 2.6 million applications submitted in just three years.

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Does Immigration Increase Crime?
Migration Policy and the Creation of the Criminal Immigrant
 , pp. 129 - 155
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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