Official figures classify some fifty million of the world¿s people as ''victims of forced displacement''. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the ''facilities'' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, ''undesirables'' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. How should we interpret the disturbing symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes?<br/><br/> After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier reveals their ''disquieting ambiguity'' and stresses the imperative need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that are currently
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The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the...
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<p>The migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements, while on the other hand many citizens have responded...
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<p>The toppling of statues in the name of anti-racism is disconcerting, as is the violence sometimes displayed towards others in the name of gender equality. The emancipation movements of the past seem to have undergone a subtle transformation:...
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In this ground-breaking new study,Jacques Le Goff, arguably the leading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of the primacy of the Middle Ages in the development of European history.<br/><ul><li><br/></li><li>"[A]...
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