Resources
Reports
On this page, you can find links to reports, organizations, web posts, and scholarly articles that inform our research.
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- Azinović, V., Bećirević, E. (2017). A Waiting Game: Assessing and Responding to the Threat from Returning Foreign Fighters in the Western Balkans. Regional Cooperation Council.
- Barrett, R. (2017). Beyond the Caliphate: Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees. The Soufan Center.
- Dworkin, A. (2019). Beyond Good and Evil: Why Europe should bring ISIS Foreign fighters home. European Council on Foreign Relations.
- Cook, J., Vale, G. (2018). From Daesh to ‘Diaspora’: Tracing the Women and Minors of Islamic State. Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace, and Security.
- Khalil, L. (2019). Behind the Veil: Women in jihad after the Caliphate. Lowy Institute.
- Open Society Justice Initiative. (2021). European States’ Obligations to Repatriate the Children Detained in Camps in Northeast Syria. Open Society Justice Initiative.
- Orav, A., Shreeves, Ro., Radjenovic, A. (2018). Radicalisation and counter-radicalisation: A gender perspective. European Parliament.
- Report N°208. (2019). Women and Children First: Repatriating the Westerners Affiliated with ISIS. International Crisis Group.
- Reprieve. (2021). Trafficked to ISIS: British families detained in Syria after being trafficked to Islamic State. Reprieve.
- Rights & Security International. (2020). RSI releases landmark report ‘Europe’s Guantanamo: The indefinite detention of European women and children in North East Syria.’ Rights & Security International.
- Rights & Security International. (2021). Abandoned to Torture: Dehumanising rights violations against children and women in northeast Syria. Rights & Security International.
- Save the Children International. (2021). When am I going to Start to Live? The urgent need to repatriate foreign children trapped in Al Hol and Roj Camps. Save the Children.
- United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. (2017). CTED Analytical Brief: The repatriation of ISIL-associated women. CTED.
- United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. (2019). Gender Dimensions of the response to returning foreign terrorist fighters. CTED.
- United Nations Human Rights Special Procedures. (2020). Extra-territorial jurisdiction of States over children and their guardians in camps, prisons, or elsewhere in the northern Syrian Arab Republic. United Nations Human Rights Special Procedures.
- Vale, G. (2019). Women in Islamic State: From Caliphate to Camps. ICCT.
- Watanabe, Lisa. (2018). The Next Steps of North Africa’s Foreign Fighters. CSS Analyses in Security Policy.
Hansard Debates
Here you will find a list of verbatim reports of the UK Parliaments debates on the subject matter that took place from 2019 to 2021. Unfortunately due to security, the WayBack machine is unable to archive these pages.
- Syria: UK Nationals. Volume 795: debated on Monday 18 February 2019.
- UK Nationals returning to Syria. Volume 654: debated on Monday 18 February 2019
- Citizenship Status. Volume 795: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2019
- Deprivation of Citizenship Status. Volume 654: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2019
- Engagements. Volume 654: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2019
- Shamima Begum and Other Cases. Volume 656: debated on Monday 11 March 2019
- ISIS Members Returning to the UK. Volume 656: debated on Monday 18 March 2019
- Countering Extremist Views. Volume 657: debated on Monday 1 April 2019
- Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill. Volume 678: debated on Thursday 21 July 2020
- Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendement) (No.2) Order 2020. Volume 804: debated on Thursday 16 July 2020.
- Nationality and Borders Bill. Volume 705: debated on Tuesday 7 December 2021
Web Posts
Here you will find links to web posts from various organizations.
- Al-Dayel, N. Mumford, A. (2020). ISIS and Their Use of Slavery. ICCT.
- McKinney, CJ. (2022). How many people have been stripped of their British citizenship. Free Movement.
- United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. (2020). Statement of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism. United Nations.
- Reprieve. (2021). Inside the ‘Guantanamo Bay for children’ in Syria. Reprieve.
Organizations
A non-exhaustive list of organizations that conduct interesting research on the issues our research addresses. Please note that our research team is not affiliated with these organizations.
Academics for Repatration
Rights & Security International Global Repatriation Tracker
ReGuide
Scholarly Books and Articles
Here you will find a small selection of refrences to scholarly books and articles that we have found useful in our research. PLEASE NOTE: Many of these articles will be behind paywall or require academic institution logins to access.
Biswas, Bidisha, and Shirin Deylami. “Radicalizing female empowerment: gender, agency, and affective appeals in Islamic State propaganda.” Small Wars & Insurgencies 30, no. 6-7 (2019): 1193-1213.
Jackson, Leonie B. The Monstrous & the Vulnerable: Framing British Jihadi Brides. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Jiwani, Yasmin. “Gendered Islamophobia in the case of the returning ISIS women: A Canadian narrative.” Islamophobia Studies Journal 6, no. 1 (2021): 52-77.
Macklin, A. 2014. Citizenship Revocation, the Privilege to Have Rights and the Production of the Alien. Queen’s Law Journal 40(1): 1–54.
Masters, Mercedes, and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. “Human rights and British citizenship: the case of Shamima Begum as citizen to homo sacer.” Journal of Human Rights Practice 12, no. 2 (2020): 341-363.
Saltman, Erin Marie, and Melanie Smith. ‘Till Martyrdom Do Us Part’: Gender and the ISIS Phenomenon. Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2015.
Sjoberg, Laura, and Caron E. Gentry. Mothers, monsters, whores: women’s violence in global politics. Zed Books, 2007.
Windsor, Leah. “The language of radicalization: Female Internet recruitment to participation in ISIS activities.” Terrorism and Political Violence 32, no. 3 (2020): 506-538.