Refugee camp geographies vary greatly; however, the most fleeting informal camps and decades-old institutional settlements have in common that they are meant to be temporary. While research on camps has been attentive to their spatialities, relatively little work has focused on closures. However, we consider the permanent possibility of closure as a constitutive element of life-in-the-camp. Closures, then, must be situated within the exclusionary landscapes in which states manage migrants custody, protection and displacement. We accordingly present camp closures as manifestations of sovereign power and the study of camp afterlives as key to critical understandings of camp geographies.

难民营的地理位置差异很大；但是，最短暂的非正式营地和有着数十年历史的机构住区的共同点是，它们只是暂时的。尽管对营地的研究一直关注其空间性，但相对较少的工作集中在封闭地上。但是，我们认为封闭的永久可能性是营地生活的构成要素。因此，封闭地必须位于国家管理移民的拘留，保护和流离失所的排他性景观之内。因此，我们提出关闭难民营是主权力量的体现，而对难民营来世的研究则是对难民营地理学进行批判性理解的关键。