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Casualties of Care

Paperback • 2011

Casualties of Care

By Miriam Ticktin

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About the book

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 wh...Show more

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2011

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Casualties of Care

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