The Suffering of the ImmigrantISBN: 978-0-7456-2643-7
Paperback
360 pages
January 2004, Polity
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- an outstanding and original work on the experience of
immigration and the kind of suffering involved in living in a
society and culture which is not one’s own;
- describes how immigrants are compelled, out of respect for
themselves and the group that allowed them to leave their country
of origin, to play down the suffering of emigration;
- Abdelmalek Sayad, was an Algerian scholar and close associate
of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu - after Sayad’s
death, Bourdieu undertook to assemble these writings for
publication;
- this book will transform the reader’s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration.