Taylor, Katherine - short clip - Post-GuantanamoStruggles
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- | If you're going back to your home country, | 0:00 |
you probably have some sort of family support. | 0:03 | |
You definitely speak the language. | 0:07 | |
You understand the system, | 0:10 | |
you know where the post office is, | 0:13 | |
you know how housing works, | 0:17 | |
you have some understanding of the statutory system | 0:21 | |
of the governments, you're going back home. | 0:24 | |
But there certainly are places where it's possible | 0:28 | |
you would face arbitrary arrest and things like that | 0:32 | |
which of course is damaging in any situation, | 0:36 | |
but in a situation where you've been held | 0:40 | |
in a legal black hole for a decade, | 0:42 | |
is immensely re-traumatizing, of course. | 0:47 | |
I mean, it's a no brainer. | 0:51 | |
It's a terrible thing to have happen. | 0:53 | |
So in terms of resettlement, it's sort of the reverse. | 0:56 | |
You might be resettled to a place | 0:59 | |
that you have more legal rights, possibly, | 1:02 | |
it's not a given, where you have more legal rights, | 1:05 | |
but then you're facing these day-to-day struggles | 1:09 | |
in terms of, just not speaking the language | 1:11 | |
is a massive thing and not understanding how anything works | 1:14 | |
and it replicates, or it can replicate a lot | 1:18 | |
of the arbitrary treatment | 1:23 | |
that men experienced in Guantanamo. | 1:25 | |
You often see this, they often draw parallels | 1:28 | |
between their experience in Guantanamo and the new place | 1:32 | |
because in a sense, they are seeing this replication | 1:35 | |
of when you don't understand the system | 1:38 | |
or system's not explained to you clearly and properly, | 1:40 | |
everything seems arbitrary and everything seems | 1:44 | |
like it's being decided by some higher authority. | 1:48 |
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