Description
Book SynopsisMichel Agier is an excellent French anthropologist who works on an extremely important topic: refugees and refugee camps.
Trade Review"One of the most important books on humanitarian assistance to emerge in several years."
Choice "An impassioned and tireless explorer of 'useless' and hence 'undesirable' populations, Michel Agier asks here about their future: how can they be returned to the human family, brought back from non-existence into the social world, from the camp to the town, from a life without time into history? How can they rediscover a place on the map of the world, and pass from the status of reject to that of subject? Urgent and indispensable reading for all who reflect on action to be taken, or are called on to take such action."
Zygmunt Bauman
Table of ContentsList of acronyms
Introduction: From Vulnerable to Undesirable
Part One: A World of Undesirables, a System of Camps
Chapter 1. Refugees, Displaced, Expelled: the Itinerary of the Stateless
Chapter 2. Refugee Camps Today. An Attempted Inventory
Part Two: Everyday Life in the Twenty-First Century's Refugee Camps
Chapter 3. An Ethnologist in the Refugee Camps
Chapter 4. The Interminable Insomnia of Exile. The Camp as an Ordinary Exceptionalism
Chapter 5. Experiences of Wandering, Borders and Camps: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea
Chapter 6. Surviving, Reviving, Leaving, Remaining. The Long Life of Angolan Refugees in Zambia
Chapter 7. The Camp-Towns. Somalia in Kenya
Chapter 8. In the Name of the Refugees. Political Representation and Action in the Camps
Chapter 9. Who Will Speak Out in the Camp? A Study of Refugees' Testimony
Part Three: After the Camps
Chapter 10. If this is a town
Chapter 11. If this is a world
Chapter 12. If this is a government
Conclusion
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