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Strangers at Our Door (Hardcover)
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Strangers at Our Door (Hardcover)
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Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished
lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of
time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were
always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety
precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves
confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our
TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration
crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse
of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a
veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large
number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of
society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins,
contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short,
the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have
exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread,
especially among those who have already lost so much - the
disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual
separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It
may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in
the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only
exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence
as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity
and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and
preferences different from our own.
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