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Managing the Undesirables (Paperback)
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Managing the Undesirables (Paperback)
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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 disturbing
symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes?
After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier
reveals their 'disquieting ambiguity' and stresses the imperative
need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that
are currently transforming the camps, sometimes making them into
towns and heralding the emergence of political subjects. A radical
critique of the foundations, contexts, and political effects of
humanitarian action.
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