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Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition
Michel Agier
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Paperback. The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. BIC Classification: 1DS; JFFN; JHM; JPA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 330.
The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places these liminal zones between countries and continents that have become the focus of so much attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the individuals who occupy these places?
In this timely book, anthropologist Michel Agier addresses these questions and ... Read more
The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places these liminal zones between countries and continents that have become the focus of so much attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the individuals who occupy these places?
In this timely book, anthropologist Michel Agier addresses these questions and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745696805
SKU
V9780745696805
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Michel Agier
Michel Agier is Director of the French Institute of Development Research and a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
Reviews for Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition
�In Borderlands, Michel Agier epitomizes what makes his standing unique in contemporary research: nothing less than the creation of a whole disciplinary field, empirical and theoretical, of urgent importance for our tragic present, the general anthropology of the displaced human in its multiple figures and locations, reversing traditional assessments of mobility and settlement, identity and strangeness, borders and neighbourhoods. He ... Read more