Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France

(University of California Press) In this book, Ticktin looks at how compassion impacts world immigration policies. She zeroes in on France and its immigration practices to argue that policies based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration through a medical lens. Ticktin poses the question of what it means to allow the sick to cross borders while the poor cannot. Ticktin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research.