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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1. VerfasserIn: Rietveld, Gaia (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Wijk, Joris van 1977- ; Bolhuis, Maarten P.
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2021
In: Crime, law and social change
Jahr: 2021, Band: 76, Heft: 1, Seiten: 35-83
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Terrorist
International
Haftentlassung
Resozialisierung
Staatsbürgerschaft
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 78-83
ISSN:1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-020-09932-z