These areas of exceptions are, in more than one sense, manifested by the refugee camps administered by the U.N. system that dot conflict ridden parts of the non-Western world. Turner’s contribution to this volume explores the complex and overlapping forms of sovereignty at work in a camp for Hutu refugees from Burandi. He shows that the “benevolent” and highly professional authoritarianism of the U.N. seek to reduce the refugee to “pure victims” — an entire population in suspension — but also that this project constantly is pierced and undermined by the return of other, and older forms of sovereignty power, such as exile political formations and local strongmen.