Title Radicalization in Western Europe : integration, public discourse, and loss of identity among Muslim communities / Carolin Goerzig and Khaled Al-Hashimi

Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (174 pages) Series Contemporary terrorism studies Contemporary terrorism studies. Contents The state of the art -- Defining radicalization -- Researching radicalization -- A new generation of Muslims in Europe -- A puzzling historical context -- An intra-European comparison -- Understanding radicalization -- Conclusion: The findings, implications, and applications Summary Employing a theoretical framework based on the concept of identity loss, this book seeks to understand why increased integration has stimulated greater radicalization among the Muslim populations in Western Europe. Through extensive field research in four European countries-- the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and France--the authors investigate three key questions: 1) Why are 2nd and 3rd generations of Muslims in Europe more radical than their parents?; 2) Why does Europe experience more "home-grown terrorism" today than thirty or forty years ago?; 3) Why do some European countries feature more radical Muslim communities than others? The book reveals that these three puzzling questions can be solved when analyzing the loss of individuality if the face of integration and identification with European society. While Individualist and structural approaches fail to explain radicalization of Muslims in Europe, this study, by framing radicalization through coupling the public discourse with identity loss, provides a much needed insight into the process of radicalization. Explaining radicalization and gaining an understanding of the drivers of radicalization is crucial to prevent and mitigate intercultural alienation, to further develop immigration policies, redress integration failures as well as to avoid dangerous oversimplifications. This book contributes not only to understanding why greater integration is matched by increasing radicalization, but its insights also contribute to developing ideas about how radicalization can be prevented or overcome and integration policies can be enhanced. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, radical Islam, war and conflict studies, European politics, IR and security studies.-- Publisher description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-168) and index Notes Print version record Subject Muslims -- Europe, Western -- Politics and government Muslims -- Europe, Western -- Ethnic identity Muslims -- Europe, Western -- Social conditions Radicalism -- Europe, Western Social integration -- Europe, Western Discourse analysis -- Europe, Western SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Discourse analysis Ethnic relations Muslims -- Ethnic identity Muslims -- Politics and government Muslims -- Social conditions Radicalism Social conditions Social integration SUBJECT Europe, Western -- Ethnic relations Europe, Western -- Social conditions Subject Western Europe Form Electronic book Author Al-Hashimi, Khaled, author. ISBN 1317812662 9781317812661 9781315817118 131581711X 9781317812654 1317812654 9781317812647 1317812646

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