La radicalisation violente au Québec : comprendre, prévenir et intervenir

Exploring the discrimination–radicalization nexus: empirical evidence from youth and young adults in Belgium

“…Mainstream media in Europe and North America has placed great emphasis on violent radicalization among new and recent immigrants (Aistrope 2016;Berbers et al 2016; Hafez and Mullins 2015) often neglecting to look at the phenomena in majorities. In the present study, neither original country/region of residence nor immigration status was associated with radical intentions, aligning with results from a violent radicalization study in Quebec (Rousseau et al 2018). Instead, not being a native speaker of one of the official languages in Belgium and experiencing discrimination based on language were risk factors for scores on the RIS.…”

“…Immigrant youth language ability seems to be intertwined with notions of citizenship and integration within a linguistically divided society (Pulinx and Van Avermaet 2015;Clycq 2016). This is again consistent with the Quebec study, in which Anglophones reported significantly more discrimination than their bilingual or Francophone peers, in a similarly tense context around a language divide (Rousseau et al 2018).…”

“…The authors found no relationship between perceived discrimination and sympathy for violent radicalization in a sample of Muslims in England. In contrast, Rousseau et al (2018) found that students in secondary education in Quebec who reported at least one experience of discrimination had significantly higher scores on an assessment of sympathy for violent radicalization than those who reported none. A study of Somali youth and young adults found that youth with radical beliefs reported moderate, but not high, levels of exposure to discrimination (Ellis et al 2016); among Flemish youth in Belgium, perceived group discrimination, as opposed to perceived personal experiences of discrimination, was associated with self-reported political vandalism (Pauwels and De Waele 2014).…”