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Repatriation, Refoulement, Repair

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This article examines Cambodia's immediate, post‐conflict period of sovereign remaking through the lens of refugee containment, circulation and repatriation. The territorial, nation state dimensions of sovereignty are well known. Yet in Cambodia, where sovereign remaking was yoked to a United Nations intervention, a Westphalian basis for sovereign authority is incomplete. Through an analysis of radio broadcasts and bureaucratic papers of the border Khmer Rouge faction, the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia and the State of Cambodia apparatus, this article argues that forced refugee repatriation (refoulement) links biological circulation to geopolitical violence. Where territorial sovereignty separates inside from outside in thick lines on political maps, biopolitical sovereignty inscribes difference on bodies and ecologies, producing inside and outside as categories of racialized difference.

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  • Erin Collins, 2016. "Repatriation, Refoulement, Repair," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 47(6), pages 1229-1246, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:47:y:2016:i:6:p:1229-1246
    DOI: 10.1111/dech.12270
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