Fifty million people in the world today are victims of forced
relocation caused by wars and violence. Whole new countries are
being created, occupied by Afghan refugees, displaced Columbians,
deported Rwandans, exiled Congolese, fleeing Iraqis, Chechens,
Somalians and Sudanese who have witnessed wars, massacres,
aggression and terror.
New populations appear, defined by their shared conditions of
fear and victimhood and by their need to survive outside of their
homelands. Their lives are marked by the daily trudge of
dislocation, refugee camps, humanitarian help and the never-ending
wait. These populations are the emblems of a new human condition
which takes shape on the very margins of the world.
In this remarkable book Michel Agier sheds light on this process
of dislocation and quarantine which is affecting an ever-growing
proportion of the world's population. He describes the experience
of these people, speaking of their pain and their plight but also
criticising their victimization by the rest of the world.
Agier analyses the ambiguous and often tainted nature of
identities shaped in and by conflicts, but also the process taking
place in the refugee camp itself, which allows refugees and the
deported to create once again a sense of community and of shared
humanity.
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