In honor of World Refugee Day 2017, the RESOLVE Network team’s “What We’re Reading” post for June features publications delving into the relationship between migration, refugees, and violent extremism.  The publications below explore the impact of violent extremism on migration, and vice versa, through analysis of dynamics within migrant communities and host communities; foreign fighter flows; and sources of resiliency within refugee populations.  Click the links below to view the documents.

Policy

Holmer, Georgia, and Adrian Shtuni. “Returning Foreign Fighters and the Reintegration Imperative.” March 2017. U.S. Institute of Peace. https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2017-03/sr402-returning-foreign-fighters-and-the-reintegration-imperative.pdf   

Martin-Rayo, Francisco. “Countering Radicalization in Refugee Camps: How Education an Help Defeat AQAP.” June 2011. Harvard Kennedy School. http://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/Countering_radicalization-Martin-Rayo.pdf  

Muji, Arife. “Reintegration of Returning Foreign Fighters: What Approach Best Suits Kosovo?”  September 2015. Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS). http://www.qkss.org/repository/docs/Reintegration_842325.pdf  

Tuesday, Reitano, and Peter Tinti. “Reviewing the Evidence Base on Migration and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE).” April 2017. CT-MORSE Consortium. http://ct-morse.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/EU-CVE-Migration-.pdf  

Ideology

“Syria Calling: Radicalisation in Central Asia.” January 2015. International Crisis Group. https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/central-asia/syria-calling-radicalisation-central-asia  

Lyons-Padilla, Sarah, Michele J. Gelfand, Hedieh Mirahmadi, Mehreen Farooq, and Marieke van Egmond. “Belonging Nowhere: Marginalization and Radicalization Risk among Muslim Immigrants.” Behavioral Science and Policy 1, no. 2 (2016): 1-12. http://www.gelfand.umd.edu/papers/BSP_2_Lyons_2p%20(002).pdf   

Sude, Barbara, David Stebbins, and Sarah Weilant. “Lessening the Risk of Refugee Radicalization: Lessons for the Middle East from Past Crises.” 2015. RAND Corporation. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE166/RAND_PE166.pdf  

Intervention Demographics 

Ahmadi, Belquis, and Sadaf Lakhani. “The Afghan Refugee Crisis in 2016.” February 2017. U.S. Institute of Peace. https://www.usip.org/publications/2017/02/afghan-refugee-crisis-2016  

Haras Rafiq, Haras, and Nikita Malik. “REFUGE: Pathways of Youth Fleeing Extremism.” 2017. Quilliam. https://www.quilliaminternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/refuge-pathways-of-youth-fleeing-extremism-executive-summary.pdf    

Political Violence

Nail, Thomas. “A Tale of Two Crises: Migration and Terrorism after the Paris Attacks.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 16, no. 1 (2016):158–167. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sena.12168/pdf   

Schmid, Alex. “Links between Terrorism and Migration: An Exploration.” May 2016. ICCT. https://www.icct.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Alex-P.-Schmid-Links-between-Terrorism-and-Migration-1.pdf