Managing the Undesirables

Name: Managing the Undesirables
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ISBN: 9780745649023

ISBN-10: 0745649025

ISBN-13: 9780745649023

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michel Agier

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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. How should we interpret the…

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List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of Acronyms Used


Introduction: From Vulnerable to Undesirable



A World of Undesirables, a Network of Camps



Refugees, Displaced, Rejected: The Itinerary of the Stateless



Encampment Today: An Attempted Inventory



Everyday Life in the Twenty-First Century's Refugee Camps



An Ethnologist in the Refugee Camps



The Interminable Insomnia of Exile: The Camp as an Ordinary Exceptionalism



Experiences of Wandering, Borders and Camps: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea



Surviving, Reviving, Leaving, Remaining: The Long Life of Angolan Refugees in Zambia



Camp-Towns: Somalia in Kenya



In the Name of the Refugees: Political Representation and Action in the Camps



Who Will Speak Out in the Camp? A Study of Refugees' Testimony



Three After the Camps...



'If This Is a Town...'



'If This Is a World...'



'If This is a Government...'


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index