female western migrants to ISIS
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hoyle, Carolyn
- Creator
- Bradford, Alexandra
- Creator
- Frenett, Ross
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- Digitaal
- Thesaurus
- terrorisme, extremisme, islam, verzetsbeweging, emigratie, Europees, Amerikaans, Canadees, Australisch, Nieuw-Zeelands, Syrië, social media, Irak, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw, rapport
- Description
- 'This report aims to provide insight into the female migrants, examining the reasons they migrate, the reality of their lives in ISIS-controlled territory, and the potential risk they pose. While there is a large online ecosystem of female ISIS supporters, this study will focus specifically on Western women who are believed to be currently residing in ISIS-controlled territory. .This report has anchored its findings in the primary material supplied by the Western female migrants themselves, through their social media accounts. In order to create the sample of women, researchers used a simple ‘snowball’ technique, where female ISIS migrants were identified among the networks of other known ISIS members. The women have been designated as ISIS migrants if they self-identify as migrants in ISIS-controlled territory. Researchers have also used evidence from photographs, online interactions with other ISIS accounts, and media reports to help determine the probability that the person is actually in Syria or Iraq. The core sample of used in the completion of this report includes twelve women. .The women’s social media postings (from Twitter, Tumblr, and Ask.fm) were transcribed and manually coded by sixty-five variables to create a searchable database.8 This report has based its research on this database, which continues to be added to by researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and will form the basis of further studies.