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Managing the Undesirables
Michel Agier
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Description for Managing the Undesirables
Paperback. Michel Agier is an excellent French anthropologist who works on an extremely important topic: refugees and refugee camps. Num Pages: 300 pages, colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. ... Read more
Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745649023
SKU
V9780745649023
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Michel Agier
Michel Agier is an anthropologist and director of studies at the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Reviews for Managing the Undesirables
"One of the most important books on humanitarian assistance to emerge in several years." Choice "An impassioned and tireless explorer of 'useless' and hence 'undesirable' populations, Michel Agier asks here about their future: how can they be returned to the human family, brought back from non-existence into the social world, from the camp to the ... Read more