Resumen de Refugees and terrorism: The real threat
The exponential increase of mainly Muslim asylum seekers to the European Union in 2014-2016 (which concurred with a dramatic intensification of religious inspired terrorist activities) raised numerous security concerns and countless questions about the link between refugees and terrorism and amplified xenophobic feelings and Islamophobia in some sectors of the European societies.
The author of this article affirms that refugees should not be perceived as directly increasing the risk of terrorism and denies the possibility of radical Islamist militants posing as refugees. However, refugees living a difficult political and legal situation and socio-economic hardship are vulnerable to experience religious radicalization (meaning the process of committing to political-religious ideologies that espouse change through violence). This article tries to examine the prospect of long term refugee radicalization, paying special attention to ideological and identity issues and providing some recommendations to avoid this process.
