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Casualties of care [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and the politics of humanitarianism in France / / Miriam Ticktin



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Autore: Ticktin Miriam Iris Visualizza persona
Titolo: Casualties of care [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and the politics of humanitarianism in France / / Miriam Ticktin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
Disciplina: 325.44
Soggetto topico: Humanitarianism - France
Soggetto geografico: France Emigration and immigration Government policy
Soggetto non controllato: cultural anthropology
cultural studies
disability studies
emigration and immigration studies
ethics studies
european anthropology
european immigration
french ethnography
french health care
french labor and economy
french politics
gender studies
global capitalism
humanitarian immigration
immigration and labor
immigration in france
immigration policy
immigration politics
international health care
international politics
international relations
refugees and asylees
social justice
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Casualties of care  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786613278593
1-283-27859-6
0-520-95053-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786707203321
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