Michel Agier, director of research at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), recognizes that for most readers, “alarm calls” about the needs of the marginalized result only in mental and emotional paralysis. In this slender anthropological study, he seeks to reduce the distance between his readers and the world of refugees, making that world comprehensible, (...)
May 22, 2009
Books
Stranded
On the Margins of the WorldThe Refugee Experience TodayMichel AgierPolity, $49.95,152 pp.
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