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In the past twenty years, over 25 million refugees have returned 'home'. These refugee repatriations are considered by the international community to be the only real means of solving mass refugee crises. Yet despite the importance placed on repatriation--both in principle and practice--there has been very little exploration of the political controversies that have framed refugee return. Several questions remain unresolved: do refugees have a right to refuse return? How can you remake citizenship after exile? Is 'home' a place or a community? How should the liberal principles be balanced against nationalist state order?
The Point of No Return: Rights, Refugees and Repatriation sets out to answer these questions and to examine the fundamental tensions between liberalism and nationalism that repatriation exposes. It makes clear that repatriation cannot be considered as a mere act of border-crossing, a physical moment of 'return'. Instead, repatriation must be recognised to be a complex political process, involving the remaking of a relationship between citizen and state, the recreation of a social contract.
Importantly, The Point of No Return shows that this rebuilding of political community need not actually involve refugees becoming residents in their country of origin. Instead, refugees may rebuild their state-citizen relationship while living as migrants, or holding regional or dual citizenships. In fact, in some settings, 'mobile' repatriation may not just be a possible but a necessary form of post-conflict citizenship. The Point of No Return therefore concludes with the radical claim that repatriation not only can but also sometimes should happen without return.
Contents
Introduction: Refugees and Citizens ; 1. Repatriation, Refugees, and Returning Home ; 2. Patria, Protection and the Social Contract ; 3. Repatriation: a Historical Perspective ; 4. Repatriation after 1955: New Settings, Same Questions ; 5. Voluntary Repatriation after 1992: Continuing Crises ; 6. Repatriation in the Twenty-First Century: Learning History's Lessons? ; 7. The Ethics of Voluntary Repatriation ; 8. Repatriation as Reconciliation: the Community Dynamics of Return ; 9. Repatriation without Return? ; 10. Refugees, Rights and Repatriation
