Essays about: "Swedish foreign fighters"

Found 4 essays containing the words Swedish foreign fighters.

1. 1. Returning Foreign Fighters to Denmark & Sweden: The Enemies of the State?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

   Author : Cianna Flyger; [2020]
   Keywords : Islamic state; foreign fighters; Denmark; Sweden; policy; discourses; critical security studies; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Denmark and Sweden, as the rest of Europe, face a dilemma of whether to repatriate their citizens who travelled to the so-called Islamic State, from the wretched refugee camps in Syria and Iraq after its fall, and how to deal with those already returned. This thesis examines the two countries’ policy-approaches and discourses to the issue of foreign fighters (FF’s) through a comparative case study, mainly focusing on Denmark, and empirical analysis of statements on FF’s from key political actors, using the social scientific method of critical discourse analysis. READ MORE

3. 2. Leaving Home to Join Extremist Violence - Framing of Swedish far-right & Islamist foreign fighters’ reasons to travel abroad to join violent extremist groups

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Yrsa Axelsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Swedish foreign fighters; radicalisation; far-right; Islamist; Frame Theory; frame resonance; frame analysis; Syria; Ukraine; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Why do some individuals travel to foreign land to join violent extremist groups? This thesis aims to fill the research gap on foreign fighters and their reasons to travel abroad, focusing on one of the countries most affected by this phenomenon; Sweden. Additionally, this thesis intends to counter the fixation on Islamist foreign fighters, which tend to make foreign fighters a product of Muslims. READ MORE

4. 3. The news framing of the ‘Syria Fighters’in Sweden : A frame analysis of Swedish Newspapers

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Viktor Johansson; [2017]
   Keywords : Foreign fighters; Syria fighters; Terrorism; Frame analysis; Framing Theory; Swedish; Dutch; Flemish; Newspapers; Media.;

   Abstract : This study examines the framing of Syria fighters in Swedish newspapers during selected time periods of 2016 and 2017. Syria Fighters refer to individuals who travel to Syria to join the ongoing conflict, an occurrence commonly known as Foreign Fighters. READ MORE

5. 4. Biopolitics and zoēpolitics in a post-political era: hegemonic struggle in the Swedish debate on foreign terrorist fighters

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Camilla Van Paaschen; [2016]
   Keywords : governmentality; biopolitics; zoēpolitics; foreign terrorist fighters; post-politics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : With an increasing number of Swedish citizens joining military extremist organizations in the Middle East, this study aims to identify and discuss the current discourses on how to handle foreign terrorist fighters through an analysis of the Swedish debate during 2014-2015. While one faction presents strategies and policy suggestions aiming to restitute what are described as mentally ill and socioeconomically excluded individuals, others in turn propose repressive measures through harsher punishment and revocation of citizenship of individuals identified as a threat to Western values. READ MORE