124 research outputs found
Like David Hicks, the Australian 'Shamima Begum' Should Issue a Writ for Habeas Corpus
No full textLike David Hicks, the Australian 'Shamima Begum' Should Issue a Writ for Habeas Corpu
Court of Appeal dismisses Shamima Begum appeal challenging Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s decision
No full textQudsia Mirza dissects the latest ruling in the lengthy litigation concerning Shamima Begum and argues that it implicitly approves the creation of a two-tier system of citizenship
Shamima Begum: why the UK Government response to the Begum's actions is shameful.
No full textThe response by the UK government to the actions of Shamima Begum is shameful. It is discriminatory, disproportionate and inhumane. The Begum case has become a touchstone, with sections of the press and government politicians celebrating the rejection of her appeal and human rights and other campaigners bemoaning it. As with many complex issues, it is easy and tempting to adopt a simple solution. That is the wrong thing to do. She should be allowed to return to her country of birth, the only country she had ever known, to face the consequences of her actions
'The consequences of your actions': political apology and the mommy myth as discursive punishment in the Shamima Begum case
No full textShamima Begum – one of three schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join ISIS in 2015 – has been the subject of many intersectional analyses that have highlighted the gendered, racist, and Orientalist frames that are deployed in relation to her story. What has been unravelled, so far, is the positioning of Begum within a narrative that functions to strip her of political agency. Building on this literature, I seek to take this examination of Begum’s case further and argue that this gendered treatment also functions to punish Shamima. This article traces two specific discourses through which this punishment is operationalised. Firstly, the insistence on a political apology from Begum for the crimes of the so-called Islamic State, positions her as a proxy for the terrorist organisation. These apologies, which are doomed to fail, leave Begum as culpable for the atrocities of ISIS. Secondly, alongside the demand for apology, I argue that a discourse of the mommy myth is weaponised to further seal Begum’s punishment. Thus, this article shows that even though her political agency is erased, Begum is still firmly placed as a threat via this legitimation of punishment, the strength of which has, ultimately, rendered her stateless.
Shamima Begum: Supreme Court cast tests whether misguided teenagers with foreign-born partents get the same second chance as murderers and rapists.
No full textFive years ago Shamima Begum, then 15, left her home and birthplace in England and made her to Syria. She travelled to lend her support to Islamic State. Begum now wants to return, but is barred from doing so. She is presently in limbo, living in the Al-Roj displaced persons camp in north-east Syria. The UK Government has deprived Begum of her citizenship and refused to grant her permission to enter the country
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Constructing radicalisation, gender, and free will: An analysis of SIAC decision in the Shamima Begum case
No full textThis article critically examines SIAC’s discussion of the Shamima Begum case
and her swift categorisation as a national security threat, which led to the
revocation of her citizenship. It argues that the Secretary of State’s
assessment of the level of risk she poses, as well as SIAC’s long discussion
about her free will when she joined ISIS, fails to adequately account for the
intersection of age, gender, and ethnicity in evaluating her case. An
intersectional approach would have facilitated an understanding of the
structural and gendered roots of the problem and provided a more effective
framework for addressing the radicalisation of young women. Rather than
offering new insights into minors joining ISIS, this case strengthens the gender
narratives through which Shamima has been constructed, reinforcing
simplistic Orientalist binaries which reproduce patriarchal narratives and
dehumanise depictions of Muslim women. This, in turn, results in policies that
ignore the complexities of young women’s radicalisation and lead to
discrimination and human rights violations.</p
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Gendering the Shamima Begum case: “Jihadi brides” and the victim/perpetrator dichotomy
No full textIn February 2015, Shamima Begum and her two friends, all aged 15, travelled from London to Syria to join the newly established Caliphate (Islamic State). In 2021, after a claim brought by her family to bring the young back to England and have a fair trial, the UK Supreme Court decided to strip her of British citizenship. An appeal was then made to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which declared the Secretary of State’s decision lawful. This article wants to offer a gender analysis of the case, which is missed in the Commission’s discussion, by providing an alternative reading of Shamima’s story. Constructed as a monster and as a victim, Shamima’s case shows the perpetration of gender stereotypes as well as Orientalist and islamophobic conceptions about Muslim women. This not only obfuscates our understanding of ISIS women, but it also limits the capacity of governments to properly address the problem of radicalisation in the West
Political Rhetoric and Hate Speech in the Case of Shamima Begum
No full textThe relationship between political rhetoric and hate crime has been a topic of growing concern in recent years, with the narratives promoted by politicians widely seen as legitimating and inspiring hate crime as well as soothing or inflaming the tensions that result from antecedent hate crime events such as terrorist attacks. The potential return of so-called ‘IS bride’ Shamima Begum from a Syrian refugee camp in 2019, following her high-profile departure four years earlier, led to intense debate within the UK, particularly over the controversial removal of her citizenship by Home Secretary Sajid Javid. As an Islamist terrorism case with clear gendered dimensions, the Begum case was well-positioned to function as a hate crime trigger event. The divisiveness of this case was reflected in partisan political argument within the UK, and accompanied by high volumes of toxic and Islamophobic social media discussion alongside input from a variety of UK politicians. This paper offers a qualitative analysis of the political rhetoric promoted in the Twitter accounts of leading UK politicians in response to the citizenship decision, and subsequent developments between February and April 2019, such as the death of Begum’s child and the granting of legal aid to support her ongoing legal challenge. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis of politicians’ online rhetoric, this study aims to establish the contribution of UK political rhetoric to the hate speech discourses that emerged online in response to this case
Mudanças comportamentais em mulheres recrutadas pelo Estado Islâmico: uma análise temática do caso da Shamima Begum
No full textThe self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) has attracted a significant number of women to its Caliphate in Iraq and Syria. This movement was called the feminization of terror and it challenged the idea that women were rarely associated with violent extremism, triggering a great deal of media attention. The present study aimed to contribute to the understanding of the behavioural trajectory of ISIS female recruits, based on the stages of involvement, engagement and disengagement proposed by the Arc of Terrorism Model. A thematic analysis of all the articles on the BBC News portal (N = 56) about the “ISIS bride” Shamima Begum was carried out. On the one hand, the results found allowed us to corroborate some factors found in previous studies and demonstrated that Begum's behavioural trajectory aligned with the stages of the Arc of Terrorism Model. On the other hand, the individuality of her path and the public-legal persecution of which she was the target, allowed us to find some specificities that expand the theory.O autoproclamado Estado Islâmico (EI) atraiu um número significativo de mulheres para o seu Califado no Iraque e na Síria. Este movimento foi denominado como a feminização do terror e veio contestar a ideia de que as mulheres raramente se associavam ao extremismo violento, desencadeando uma grande atenção mediática. O principal objetivo do presente estudo foi contribuir para a compreensão da trajetória comportamental das recrutas femininas do EI, tendo por base os estádios de envolvimento, participação e desvinculação propostos pelo Modelo do Arco de Terrorismo. Foi realizada uma análise temática de todas as notícias do portal da BBC News (N = 56) sobre a “noiva do EI” Shamima Begum. Por um lado, os resultados encontrados permitiram corroborar alguns fatores encontrados em estudos anteriores e demonstraram que a trajetória comportamental de Begum se alinhou com os estádios do Modelo do Arco de Terrorismo. Por outro, a individualidade do seu percurso e a persecução público-legal de qual foi alvo, permitiram encontrar algumas especificidades que ampliam a teoria.Mestrado em Psicologia da Saúde e Neuropsicologi
La revoca della cittadinanza tra sicurezza nazionale e diritti. Note a margine del caso Shamima Begum
No full textIn a ruling delivered on February 26, 2021, the UK Supreme Court confirmed
the decision, adopted by the Secretary of State on the basis of art.
40(2) BNA, to deprive Shamima Begum of her British citizenship for national
security reasons, due to her affiliation to ISIL, stating that the decision
is not in contrast with her right to a fair hearing. According to the
Court, indeed, in deprivation decisions the Secretary of State enjoys a
wide margin of discretion and national security interests shall prevail
over individual rights. As it is argued in this paper, the ruling is highly
problematic, providing, while indirectly, for additional limitations to the
right of the individual to a citizenship
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