{"id":4351,"date":"2021-11-17T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:52","slug":"realizing-the-right-of-return-geopolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2021\/realizing-the-right-of-return-geopolitics\/","title":{"rendered":"Realising the Right of Return: Refugees\u2019 Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR in Geopolitics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Realising the Right of Return: Refugees\u2019 Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR in Geopolitics\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14650045.2021.1994399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card-400x225.png\" alt=\"Realising the Right of Return: Refugees\u2019 Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR in Geopolitics | Megan Bradley, Associate Professor, McGill University\" class=\"wp-image-4407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card-160x90.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card-240x135.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card-360x203.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/Megan-Bradley-Geopolitics-Card.png 1640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/megan-bradley\/\">Megan Bradley<\/a>, Lead of LERRN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/solutions-working-group\/\">Solutions Working Group<\/a>, has published <em>Realising the Right of Return: Refugees\u2019 Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR<\/em> in <em>Geopolitics<\/em>.&nbsp;Drawing on extensive material from the UNHCR archives on repatriation movements from Honduras to El Salvador in the 1980s, this article examines how refugees themselves have influenced the governance of return by serving as norm entrepreneurs, localising the right of return and socialising UNHCR to rethink and support broader interpretations of this principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reinforcing and expanding on recent studies of how refugees actively shape aid efforts, peacebuilding and the resolution of displacement, this study highlights the significance of subaltern power in the refugee regime, showing how it can reverberate across different sites and scales to definitively influence not only the execution of the regime\u2019s core functions but also the interpretation of the normative commitments underpinning it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14650045.2021.1994399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read full article here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Bradley, Lead of LERRN&#8217;s Solutions Working Group, has published Realising the Right of Return: Refugees\u2019 Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR in Geopolitics.&nbsp;Drawing on extensive material from the UNHCR archives on repatriation movements from Honduras to El Salvador in the 1980s, this article examines how refugees themselves have influenced the governance of return 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