On the Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience TodayISBN: 978-0-7456-4052-5
Paperback
152 pages
June 2008, Polity
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New populations appear, defined by their shared conditions of
fear and victimhood and by their need to survive outside of their
homelands. Their lives are marked by the daily trudge of
dislocation, refugee camps, humanitarian help and the never-ending
wait. These populations are the emblems of a new human condition
which takes shape on the very margins of the world.
In this remarkable book Michel Agier sheds light on this process
of dislocation and quarantine which is affecting an ever-growing
proportion of the world's population. He describes the experience
of these people, speaking of their pain and their plight but also
criticising their victimization by the rest of the world.
Agier analyses the ambiguous and often tainted nature of identities shaped in and by conflicts, but also the process taking place in the refugee camp itself, which allows refugees and the deported to create once again a sense of community and of shared humanity.