Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in FranceThis 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The context Politics and care | 27 |
On the ground Compassion and pathology | 87 |
Antipolitics Diseased citizens and a racialized postcolonial state | 159 |
Engaging the Political | 221 |
Other editions - View all
Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France Miriam I. Ticktin No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
activists Algerian anti-immigrant antipolitics antitrafficking argue armed love asylum banlieue bilateral accords biological called CCEM chapter citizens citizenship claims colonial compassion contemporary context cultural deported discourse doctor emergency European European Union exceptional explained exploitation Fassin feminist Femmes France France's French gendered global South human rights human trafficking humanitarian husband illness clause inequality instance institutions Kouchner labor lives Médecins du Monde Médecins sans Frontières medical humanitarianism medical office migration modern slavery moral imperative morally legitimate suffering nation-state NGOs Nicolas Sarkozy nurses one’s organizations papers Paris pathologies patients police politics of immigration postcolonial practices prefecture prostitution protect racialized Rajfire regimes response role SAMU Social sans-papiers sans-papiers movement Sarkozy self-harm sexual violence sick situation slavery slaves status status laws story struggle suffering body tion transnational undocumented immigrants University Press victims violence against women