Publication

While we now have a solid database on the processes of radicalisation of Muslims in the West, what we still lack is a theoretical framework that links the different pieces of empirical knowledge together. This working paper suggests that the diaspora concept could provide such a framework. Its notion of double ethnic membership and double identity, in particular, could be a key to explaining the strain and stress to which many diaspora members feel exposed and the temptation to resolve their problems by adopting a radical ideology. Within the spectrum of different forms of diaspora radicalism, we will analyse the specific traits of religiously‐motivated radicalism.