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Author: Vishnevskai︠a︡, Galina,,1926-2012

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Managing the undesirables : refugee camps and humanitarian government /

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Main Authors: Agier, Michel, 1953-
Group Author: Fernbach, David (trans.)
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Literature type: Book
Language: English
French
Edition: English ed.
Subjects:
Refugees > International cooperation.
Humanitarian assistance > Political aspects.
Political refugees.
Refugee camps.
Refugees > Government policy.
Carrier Form: x, 268 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.
ISBN: 9780745649016 :
0745649017
9780745649023 (pbk.)
0745649025 (pbk.)
Index Number: HV640
CLC: D815.6
Call Number: D815.6/A267
Contents: Introduction : from vulnerable to undesirable -- Refugees, displaced, rejected : the itinerary of the stateless -- Encampment today : an attempted inventory -- An ethnologist in the refugee camps -- The interminable insomnia of exile : the camp as an ordinary exceptionalism -- Experiences of wandering, borders and camps : Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea -- Surviving, reviving, leaving, remaining : the long life of Angolan refugees in Zambia -- Camp-towns : Somalia in Kenya -- In the name of the refugees : political representation and action in the camps -- Who will speak out in the camp? : a study of refugees' testimony -- 'If this is a town...' -- 'If this is a world...' --- 'If this is a government...'.

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