The Point of No Return: Refugees, Rights, and Repatriation sets out . . . 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 recognized to be a complex political process, involving the remaking of a relationship between citizen and state, the recreation of a social contract.
—The Point of No Return book jacket
