Essays about: "Yrsa Axelsson"

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  1. 1. 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