Managing the Undesirables

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4901-6

Hardcover

300 pages

December 2010, Polity

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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Michel Agier is an excellent French anthropologist who works on an extremely important topic: refugees and refugee camps.
This new book focuses on life inside refugee camps and detention centres, based on his research between 2000 and 2007 in Somali, Sudan, Rwanda, Angloa, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Europe.
Agier explores the complex ambiguities of life inside the camps and the tensions, forms of power and protest that emerge within them, as well as the experiences, attitudes and despair of refugees themselves.
This should have a readership in anthropology courses as well as a wider general readership.