New blog post: “The Consequences of Your Actions”: The Punishment of Shamima Begum

In this IFJP article, the author focuses on Shamima Begum – one of three schoolgirls who traveled to Syria to join Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2015 – who has been the subject of many intersectional analyses that have highlighted the gendered, racist, and neo-Orientalist frames that have been deployed in relation to her story. The article shows that even though her political agency has been erased, Begum has still been firmly cast as a threat via this legitimation of punishment – the strength of which has, ultimately, rendered her stateless.

Read the blog here.