1 option
Casualties of care : immigration and the politics of humanitarianism in France / Miriam Ticktin.
Van Pelt Library JV7925.2 .T53 2011
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ticktin, Miriam
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarianism.
- France--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- France.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Government policy.
- Humanitarianism--France.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two "regimes of care"-humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women-Ticktin asks what it means to permit the ill and sexually violated to cross borders while the impoverished cannot. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I The Context: Politics and Care
- 1 Sans-Papiers and the Context of Political Struggle 29
- 2 Genealogies of Care: The New Humanitarianism 60
- Part II On the Ground: Compassion and Pathology
- 3 The Illness Clause: Life and the Politics of Compassion 89
- 4 In the Name of Violence against Women 128
- Part III Antipolitics: Diseased Citizens and A Racialized Postcolonial State
- 5 Armed Love: Against Modern Slavery, Against Immigrants 161
- 6 Biological Involution? The Production of Diseased Citizens 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520269040
- 0520269047
- 9780520269057
- 0520269055
- OCLC:
- 707023042
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.