The U.S. versus them
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2020-07-01
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This Bachelor’s thesis focusses on the impacts of the September 11 attacks on visa issuances to migrants from Muslim-majority countries, in comparison to those to migrants from other countries. Since post-9/11 political and media discourse have influenced the general view of Muslims toward a more negative image, one might expect that this has also had a restrictive influence on visa issuances to migrants from Muslim-majority countries. The purpose of this thesis was therefore to find out whether migration policies have indeed become more restrictive for Muslim migrants in particular, and whether we see this impact in a larger decrease in issuances to migrants from this category, as compared to other migrants. Therefore a qualitative analysis has been conducted on US migration policy developments in the period of 1991 until 2019, which was then compared to the outcome of a quantitative analysis on the number of visa issuances to migrants from different countries in this same period. The findings show that changes in both policies and issuances have indeed had a more restrictive impact on migrants from Muslim-majority countries.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen