A mass repatriation can be managed through hundreds of adaptive laws.

Evidence

This attention to the functioning of the ‘administration of repatriates’ demonstrates the state’s real and ongoing determination to establish close relations with the people in its care: a determination, too, to respond to specific situations and thus constructively adapt the legislation of 26 December 1961. The upshot, between 1961 and 2005, was over 800 different laws intended to facilitate the integration of repatriates. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 496

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Modern self-government requires legally remaking entire subject populations. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1220; Inductive reasoning allows the law to adapt to changing societal times. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 613; Adaptability is a key asset that makes regimes easier to modify than replace — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 113

Broader Connections