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On the Margins of the World - The Refugee Experience Today (Hardcover, English)
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On the Margins of the World - The Refugee Experience Today (Hardcover, English)
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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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