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Hashempour, Parisa (2019)

Resisting Female Resistance: an exploration into the female foreign fighter both past and present

Master thesis | History (MA)
Why should the term 'foreign fighter' be applicable to women serving non-violently in transnational insurgencies both past and present? Using case studies of women migrating from western countries to serve in Spain during the Spanish Civil War as well as studying the more recent migration of western women to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria, this thesis explores how female volunteers fit into existing frameworks of the foreign fighter despite often being unrecognised as such.
foreign fighters
Spanish Civil War
Jihadism
Transnational conflict
gender
Author
Hashempour, Parisa
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Supervisors
Pluskota, Marion
ECTS Credits
20
Language
en