In the wake of the fall of the Daesh Islamic State “Caliphate” in 2019, the international community has been faced with the fact that thousands of displaced persons are stranded in Iraqi and Syrian detention centers. This article interrogates the governmental policies of ten Western European countries toward their nationals and legal residents held in the prisons and camps. We analyze the discourse and the practices of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of the “foreign-terrorist-fighter-citizens.” We find that the Western European governments have engaged in different types of deterritorialization and reterritorialization moves which have acted to position their foreign fighter nationals and dependents at the liminars of the body politic in a way that runs the risk of perpetuating the foreign fighters’ and their dependents’ confinement in, what some practitioners have denounced as, “Europe's Guantanamo.” We also argue that the deterritorialization and reterritorialization moves reveal the emptiness of the current-day liberal state project at its core. The discourses and practices place the liberal democratic state at odds with its own declared values and with the basic human rights of the foreign-terrorist-fighter-citizen in a manner that is corrosive to other citizens and to the ideals inherent to “good life” of the political community.

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欧洲外国恐怖主义战斗人员的政治：公民的去领土化和再领土化？


2019年“伊斯兰国”“哈里发国”垮台后，国际社会面临着数千名流离失所者被困在伊拉克和叙利亚拘留中心的事实。本文质疑十个西欧国家的政府对其国民和被关押在监狱和集中营的合法居民的政策。我们分析了“外国恐怖分子战斗人员公民”的去领土化和再领土化的话语和实践。我们发现，西欧各国政府采取了不同类型的去领土化和再领土化行动，这些行动将其外国战斗人员及其家属置于政治体的边缘，这样做的风险是使外国战斗人员及其家属永久化。家属被关押在被一些实践者谴责为“欧洲的关塔那摩”的地方。我们还认为，去领土化和再领土化举措揭示了当今自由主义国家计划的核心空虚。这些言论和做法使自由民主国家与其自己宣称的价值观以及外国恐怖主义战斗人员公民的基本人权相抵触，从而腐蚀了其他公民以及“美好生活”固有的理想政治界的。