TY - BOOK AU - STENGER Helen TI - Victim versus villain: repatriation policies for foreign fighters and the construction of gendered and racialised 'threat narratives' PY - 2023/// KW - ISIS KW - REPATRIATION KW - FOREIGN FIGHTERS N2 - State responses to repatriation of Islamic State (ISIS) foreign fighters and their children detained across Syria and Iraq are highly diverse. Repatriation policies implemented between 2018 and 2020 range from denying repatriation of nationals and revocation of citizenship to repatriation and subsequent gender-responsive rehabilitation programmes. What explains the variation in state responses? This article seeks to explain why repatriation policies differ despite the global challenges faced by all states UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2022.28 ER -