EAN: 9781509539895

THE STRANGER AS MY GUEST A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOG...

The migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand  many
states have responded by tightening border controls  in an attempt to restrict population
movements  while on the other hand many citizens have responded by welcoming new arrivals 
offering them shelter  food and whatever help they could provide. By so doing  they have
re-awakened an old form of anthropology that was long-considered to be dead - that of
hospitality. In this book  Agier develops an original anthropology of hospitality that starts
from the reality of hospitality as a social relationship  albeit an asymmetrical one  in which
each party has rights and duties. He argues that  with the decline of state and religious
support  hospitality is now making a comeback at individual and municipal levels but these
local initiatives  while important  are insufficient to respond to the scale of migration in
the world today. We need a new hospitality policy for the modern era  one that will regard
hospitality as a right rather than a favour and will treat the stranger as a guest rather than
as an alien or an enemy. This timely and original book will be of great interest to students
and scholars in anthropology  sociology and the social sciences generally  and to anyone
concerned with migration and refugees in the world today.

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