Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention - Kelly Oliver (University of Minnesota Press) book a tribute to thorny love

a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other

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Here we hope to find an opportunity to practice our own becoming

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Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention - Kelly Oliver (University of Minnesota Press) book a tribute to thorny loveCoopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to collateral damage in proxy wars fought in the war on terrorism. Carceral Humanitarianism testifies that humanitarian aid and human rights discourse are always political and partisan. Forerunners is a