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On a practical degree, will international locations in Central Asia take back their residents who are currently in prison within the greater Middle East? IS’s Afghanistan department is actively recruiting Central Asians however the circulation of fighters is far lower than to the Middle East three or four years ago. Numerous Central Asians fighting in the Middle East seem to have been radicalized exterior of Central Asia, while working as labor migrants in Russia or Turkey. This paper combines separate contributions from three authors: Edward Lemon provided the results of his area analysis with Central Asian migrants in Russia between July 2014 and June 2015, in addition to tallies of attacks and fighters and intensive research of the scholarly literature and media studies; Vera Mironova offered the results of her discipline research, comprising quite a few interviews with Russian- and Arabic-speaking ex-fighters in Iraq, Turkey and Ukraine in 2013-2017; William Tobey researched and wrote the section on Central Asian risk vectors for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. Since 2009, he has spent almost three years working and conducting fieldwork in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Poland. |
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