Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of

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

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"â€”humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against womenâ€”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. Ticktinâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-08-29
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-08-29
Format	Kindle eBook

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