Casualties of care : immigration and the politics of humanitarianism in France / Miriam Ticktin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ticktin, Miriam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarianism--France.

Humanitarianism.

France--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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 sick and sexually violated to cross borders while the impoverished cannot? She demonstrates how in an inhospitable immigration climate, unusual pathologies can become the means to residency papers, making conditions like HIV, cancer, and select experiences of sexual violence into distinct advantages for would-be migrants. Ticktin's analysis also indicts the inequalities forged by global capitalism that drive people to migrate, and the state practices that criminalize the majority of undocumented migrants at the expense of care for the exceptional few.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613278593

9781283278591

1283278596

9780520950535

0520950534

OCLC:

745865768