Author

Publication

2012 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC174/.9361
  • LCCHV553 .F3713 2012

Description

Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum.

First Sentence

Moral sentiments have become an essential force in contemporary politics: they nourish its discourses and legitimize its practices, particularly where these discourses and practices are focused on the disadvantaged and the dominated, whether at home (the poor, the immigrants, the homeless) or farther away (the victims of famine, epidemics, or war).

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