Description
Product ID: | 9780520269057 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Casualties of Care |
Subtitle: | Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France |
Authors: | Author: Miriam I. Ticktin |
Page Count: | 312 |
Subjects: | Migration, immigration and emigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Anthropology, Human rights, civil rights, Anthropology, Human rights, France |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. This book 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. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-08-29 |