Failed immigrant adaptation makes some vulnerable to jihadist recruitment

Evidence

If terrorism is to be defeated worldwide, societies must address the life conditions that drive people to take up deadly terroristic missions. This is a daunting challenge not amenable to quick fixes. More advantaged individuals who have been alienated and radicalized by embittering experiences in their efforts to promote the social changes they desire usually spearhead militant activism (Bandura, 1973; Sprinzak, 1990). In cultural milieus that hail suicide bombers as gaining blessed martyrdom, this mode of terrorism is institutionally embraced and socially applauded as divine retribution for the humiliation and suffering inflicted by the enemy (Lelyveld, 2001). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2502 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The new immigration became a target largely because prior enemy categories failed — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 518; Al-Qaeda recruits Western residents and recruits adolescents craving easy certainties — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1437; Rapid urbanization and displacement drove migrants to Islamist welfare networks (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Terrorism recruits advantaged, radicalized idealists, not just the impoverished #complicates (0.82) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2502