The Point of No Return Refugees, Rights, and Repatriation

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.