In my
previous article on the topic of immigration, I wrote that one of "the destructive consequences of non-integrated mass migration is a
rise in crime."
Migration is the top concern for EU citizens
I naively believed that the connection between migration and crime was obvious. However, after publishing the article, I researched the topic further and realized that, as usual, things are way more complex, and more interesting, than they seem.
In the present article we will try to understand the connections, if any, between migration and crime. To do so, we will go through a series of charts, we will interpret them and, more importantly, we will see how those
data are often cherry-picked and twisted to serve extremist ideological discourses.
First, let's have a look at how migration is perceived. In Europe,
immigration has clearly become the most important source of concern among most citizens - it ranks higher than terrorism or unemployment.
Whether this concern is justified doesn't really matter at this point because it reveals an important point: a majority of European people are really concerned about immigration into their countries, i.e. there is an emotional load. And we know that
heightened emotional states constitute a very fertile ground for hystericization, black-and-white thinking and extremist ideologies.
