Question

What questions can be asked during discussion from reading this book: (3-4 questions)

Ticktin, Miriam Iris. 2011. Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France. Berkeley: University of California Press.

This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two “regimes of care”—humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women—Ticktin asks what it means to permit the sick and sexually violated to cross borders while the impoverished cannot? She demonstrates how in an inhospitable immigration climate, unusual pathologies can become the means to residency papers, making conditions like HIV, cancer, and select experiences of sexual violence into distinct advantages for would-be migrants. Ticktin’s analysis also indicts the inequalities forged by global capitalism that drive people to migrate, and the state practices that criminalize the majority of undocumented migrants at the expense of care for the exceptional few.

Answer 1

What would happen if a country keep letting asylum seekers in?

Who would bear the additional costs that would occur if a country lets asylum seekers in?

What would be the infrastructural challenges the country that accept asylum seekers in large numbers in?

Is it a moral responsibility of the developed countries to let asylum seekers from different countries that are torn by poverty, war etc. in?

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