The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment
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Resumo: | This paper analyses the phenomenon of a group of Portuguese citizens and Portuguese-descendants who went to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS) organisation and other extremist groups in Syria and Iraq. The article provides a new contribution to radicalisation by using a new dataset and an understudied case study: Portugal. It hosts a small Muslim community, which has not found itself under the spotlight of being a major concern, as regards the terrorist threat. Is it possible to find common underlying motivations driving young men and women to volunteer for jihad? Do young Muslims face different constraints that explain their involvement in militant activity, particularly being more vulnerable to factors such as socioeconomic marginalisation? Does socialisation in peer-to-peer ideological networks, and small-group recruitment within pre-existing radical milieus play a decisive role? By identifying biographical factors that stand out in two radicalisation theories – social network analysis, and the relative deprivation hypothesis –, it is possible to elicit what factors hold when applied specifically to the Portuguese case. The data provide support to socioeconomic explanations and group-level factors as the main mechanisms that lead converts to involvement in extremism and terrorism. |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessmentPortugalForeign fightersJihadismSocial networksTheoryIslamic Statesocial network theoryCiências Sociais::SociologiaThis paper analyses the phenomenon of a group of Portuguese citizens and Portuguese-descendants who went to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS) organisation and other extremist groups in Syria and Iraq. The article provides a new contribution to radicalisation by using a new dataset and an understudied case study: Portugal. It hosts a small Muslim community, which has not found itself under the spotlight of being a major concern, as regards the terrorist threat. Is it possible to find common underlying motivations driving young men and women to volunteer for jihad? Do young Muslims face different constraints that explain their involvement in militant activity, particularly being more vulnerable to factors such as socioeconomic marginalisation? Does socialisation in peer-to-peer ideological networks, and small-group recruitment within pre-existing radical milieus play a decisive role? By identifying biographical factors that stand out in two radicalisation theories – social network analysis, and the relative deprivation hypothesis –, it is possible to elicit what factors hold when applied specifically to the Portuguese case. The data provide support to socioeconomic explanations and group-level factors as the main mechanisms that lead converts to involvement in extremism and terrorism.This work was supported by Research Center in Political Science – CICP [Grant Number UID/CPO/00758/2013]RoutledgeUniversidade do MinhoPinto Arena, Maria do Céu20182018-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/83429engPinto Arena, M. do C. (2018, January 2). The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. Informa UK Limited. http://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2018.14328811833-53302159-536410.1080/18335330.2018.1432881https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18335330.2018.1432881info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:05:32Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/83429Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:55:59.233345Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment Pinto Arena, Maria do Céu Portugal Foreign fighters Jihadism Social networks Theory Islamic State social network theory Ciências Sociais::Sociologia |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment |
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The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment |
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Pinto Arena, Maria do Céu |
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Pinto Arena, Maria do Céu |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Pinto Arena, Maria do Céu |
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Portugal Foreign fighters Jihadism Social networks Theory Islamic State social network theory Ciências Sociais::Sociologia |
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Portugal Foreign fighters Jihadism Social networks Theory Islamic State social network theory Ciências Sociais::Sociologia |
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This paper analyses the phenomenon of a group of Portuguese citizens and Portuguese-descendants who went to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS) organisation and other extremist groups in Syria and Iraq. The article provides a new contribution to radicalisation by using a new dataset and an understudied case study: Portugal. It hosts a small Muslim community, which has not found itself under the spotlight of being a major concern, as regards the terrorist threat. Is it possible to find common underlying motivations driving young men and women to volunteer for jihad? Do young Muslims face different constraints that explain their involvement in militant activity, particularly being more vulnerable to factors such as socioeconomic marginalisation? Does socialisation in peer-to-peer ideological networks, and small-group recruitment within pre-existing radical milieus play a decisive role? By identifying biographical factors that stand out in two radicalisation theories – social network analysis, and the relative deprivation hypothesis –, it is possible to elicit what factors hold when applied specifically to the Portuguese case. The data provide support to socioeconomic explanations and group-level factors as the main mechanisms that lead converts to involvement in extremism and terrorism. |
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Pinto Arena, M. do C. (2018, January 2). The Portuguese foreign fighters phenomenon: a preliminary assessment. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. Informa UK Limited. http://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2018.1432881 1833-5330 2159-5364 10.1080/18335330.2018.1432881 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18335330.2018.1432881 |
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