{"product_id":"managing-the-undesirables-paperback-softback-9780745649023","title":"Managing the Undesirables (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745649023","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eManaging the Undesirables\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichel Agier (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745649023, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 December 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15 x 2 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"One of the most important books on humanitarian assistance to emerge in several years.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZygmunt Bauman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOfficial figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. How should we interpret the disturbing symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier reveals their 'disquieting ambiguity' and stresses the imperative need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that are currently transforming the camps, sometimes making them into towns and heralding the emergence of political subjects.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A radical critique of the foundations, contexts, and political effects of humanitarian action.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of acronyms\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: From Vulnerable to Undesirable\u003cbr\u003ePart One: A World of Undesirables, a System of Camps\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Refugees, Displaced, Expelled: the Itinerary of the Stateless\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Refugee Camps Today. An Attempted Inventory\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Everyday Life in the Twenty-First Century's Refugee Camps\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. An Ethnologist in the Refugee Camps\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Interminable Insomnia of Exile. The Camp as an Ordinary Exceptionalism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Experiences of Wandering, Borders and Camps: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Surviving, Reviving, Leaving, Remaining. The Long Life of Angolan Refugees in Zambia\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Camp-Towns. Somalia in Kenya\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. In the Name of the Refugees. Political Representation and Action in the Camps\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Who Will Speak Out in the Camp? A Study of Refugees' Testimony\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: After the Camps\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. If this is a town\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. If this is a world\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. If this is a government\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460654919960,"sku":"9780745649023","price":17.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745649023.jpg?v=1785456945","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/managing-the-undesirables-paperback-softback-9780745649023","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}