Nimmi Gowrinathan
Bio:
Nimmi Gowrinathan, PhD, is a writer, human rights researcher, and scholar. She is currently a visiting professor at City College New York. You can read more of her work at www.deviarchy.com or follow her @nimmideviarchy.
The British government is scrambling to find three of its female citizens traveling to join the ranks of foreign recruits to the Islamic State (IS or ISIS). These young women are not alone. According to one recent study, more than 500 women from Western countries have traveled to join the extremists in Iraq and Syria.