Conflict Studies Assistant Professor Megan Bradley releases new book “Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress”

Megan Bradley, Saint Paul University assistant professor in Conflict Studies has released a new book “Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress”. Megan Bradley specializes in forced migration, human rights, transitional justice, and research for development.

“In this remarkable book, Megan Bradley brilliantly unlocks one of the greatest challenges in the politics of refugee protection: the conditions for a just return. She does so by integrating nuanced normative analysis with in–depth and highly readable historical cases, attaining both academic excellence and must–read policy relevance.”

- Alexander Betts, University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, University of Oxford

Voluntary repatriation is now the predominant solution to refugee crises, yet the responsibilities states of origin bear towards their repatriating citizens are under-examined. Through a combination of legal and moral analysis and case studies of the troubled repatriation movements to Guatemala, Bosnia and Mozambique, Megan Bradley develops and refines an original account of the minimum conditions of a ‘just return’ process. The goal of a just return process must be to recast a new relationship of rights and duties between the state and its returning citizens, and the conditions of just return match the core duties states should provide for all their citizens: equal, effective protection for security and basic human rights, including accountability for violations of these rights. This volume evaluates the ways in which different forms of redress such as restitution and compensation may help enable just returns, and traces the emergence and evolution of international norms on redress for refugees.