Introduction : refugees and citizens -- Repatriation, Refugees, and Returning Home -- Patria, Protection, and the Social Contract -- Repatriation : A Historical Perspective -- Repatriation after 1955 : New Settings, Same Questions -- Voluntary Repatriation after 1992 : Continuing Crises -- Repatriation in the Twenty-First Century : Learning History's Lessons? -- The Ethics of Voluntary Repatriation -- Repatriation as Reconciliation : The Community Dynamics of Return -- Repatriation without Return?
Summary
'The Point of No Return' explores the politics that surround refugees' return 'home'. It combines political theory historical research, and grassroots fieldwork in Latin America and Africa to present a comprehensive picture of refugee repatriation through the 20th-century