Managing the undesirables : refugee camps and humanitarian government / Michel Agier ; translated by David Fernbach.
By: Agier, Michel
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2011Edition: English ed.Description: x, 268 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780745649016; 0745649017; 9780745649023 (pbk.); 0745649025 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Gérer les indésirables. English Subject(s): Refugees -- International cooperation | Humanitarian assistance -- Political aspects | Political refugees | Refugee camps | Refugees -- Government policyDDC classification: 362.87526 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally published in French as: Gérer les indésirables : des camps de réfugiés au gouvernement humanitaire. Paris : Flammarion, c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.
Introduction : from vulnerable to undesirable -- Refugees, displaced, rejected : the itinerary of the stateless -- Encampment today : an attempted inventory -- An ethnologist in the refugee camps -- The interminable insomnia of exile : the camp as an ordinary exceptionalism -- Experiences of wandering, borders and camps : Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea -- Surviving, reviving, leaving, remaining : the long life of Angolan refugees in Zambia -- Camp-towns : Somalia in Kenya -- In the name of refugees : political representation and action in the camps -- Who will speak out in the camp? : a study of refugees' testimony -- 'If this is a town...' -- 'If this is a world...' --- 'If this is a government...'.
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