Katy Long

The Point of No Return explores the politics that surround refugees' return 'home'. What do these processes of refugee repatriation reveal about the tensions between the liberal aim to protect individual rights and freedoms and nation-states' interests in securing order and stability through a structure that insists on collective belonging? The book combines political theory, historical research, and grassroots fieldwork in Latin America and Africa to present acomprehensive picture of refugee repatriation through the twentieth century.

Refugees, Rights, and Repatriation

The Point of No Return

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Nando Sigona

Gil Loescher

"This Handbook critically traces the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and vividly illustrates the vibrant and engaging debates that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice. The contributions highlight the key challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world, as well as identifying new directions for research in the field. Since emerging as a distinct field of study in the early 1980s, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being of concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy analysts to become a global field with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement, either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer interdisciplinary programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences". --Publisher.

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