Casualties of Care : Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France /

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This work explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. In particular it looks at two regimes of care, humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ticktin, Miriam Iris (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Invandringspolitik > Frankrike.
Humanitarianism.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Altruism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Medecine > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Altruisme.
History, 21st Century
Altruism
Public Policy > history
Emigration and Immigration > history
Humanitarianism > France.
France.
France
France > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The context : politics and care
  • pt. 2. On the ground : compassion and pathology
  • pt. 3. Antipolitics : diseased citizens and a racialized postcolonial state.

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