Who wants ‘the worst of the worst’?: rationales for and consequences of third country resettlement of Guantanamo Bay detainees

Against the backdrop of countries increasingly being confronted with undesirable but unreturnable non-citizen terrorist suspects, this article describes the resettlement process of 150 cleared but unreturnable Guantanamo Bay detainees. Merely 13% of these detainees have been resettled in full democr...

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Main Author: Rietveld, Gaia (Author)
Contributors: Wijk, Joris van 1977- ; Bolhuis, Maarten P.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2021, Volume: 76, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-83
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Terrorist
International
Haftentlassung
Resozialisierung
Staatsbürgerschaft
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Summary:Against the backdrop of countries increasingly being confronted with undesirable but unreturnable non-citizen terrorist suspects, this article describes the resettlement process of 150 cleared but unreturnable Guantanamo Bay detainees. Merely 13% of these detainees have been resettled in full democracies, compared to 52% in authoritarian regimes. Using Starkley et al.’s concept of ‘zone agreement’ the article explains how the U.S. particularly managed to incentivize pragmatically oriented - rather than idealistically motivated - governments to engage in third country resettlement [16]. From the perspective of the U.S. the resettlement scheme can be considered relatively successful, while the experiences of resettlement countries and the resettled detainees themselves have been very mixed.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 78-83
ISSN:1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-020-09932-z