TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Who wants 'the worst of the worst'? Rationales for and consequences of third country resettlement of Guantanamo Bay detainees
JO  - Crime, law and social change
A1  - Rietveld, Gaia
A1  - van Wijk, Joris
A1  - Bolhuis, Maarten P.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0925-4994
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10611-020-09932-z
ID  - ref1
ER  -