On the margins of the world : the refugee experience today / Michel Agier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agier, Michel, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees.

Physical Description:

ix, 118 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008.

Summary:

Fifty million people in the world today are victims of forced relocation caused by wars and violence. A whole new country is being created, composed of Afghans, Colombians, Rwandans, Somalians and many more who have witnessed massacre, aggression and terror. New populations appear, defined by their shared situation of fear and victimhood and by their need to survive outside of their homelands - 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 criticizing 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.

Contents:

2 Bruised Populations 7

3 The Desert, the Camp, the City 39

4 The Right to Life 73

5 Conclusion: What Refugees Need is Fame 102.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745640518

0745640516

0745640524

9780745640525

OCLC:

153556561