Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France

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University of California Press, 29 aug 2011 - 312 pagina's
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.
 

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The Politics and Antipolitics of Care
1
The context Politics and care
27
On the ground Compassion and pathology
87
Antipolitics Diseased citizens and a racialized postcolonial state
159
Engaging the Political
221
Notes
227
Bibliography
249
Index
279
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Miriam Ticktin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research.

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