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Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.
Refugees. --- Emigration and immigration --- Immigrants --- Refugees --- Réfugiés --- Emigration et immigration --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Public opinion --- Aspect social --- Aspect politique --- Opinion publique --- RéfugiésSocial aspects. --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Public opinion. --- #SBIB:316.7C160 --- 316.323.9 --- 316.647.4 --- 316.2 BAUMAN, ZYGMUNT --- 316.2 BAUMAN, ZYGMUNT Sociologische richtingen. Sociologische scholen. Sociologen--BAUMAN, ZYGMUNT --- Sociologische richtingen. Sociologische scholen. Sociologen--BAUMAN, ZYGMUNT --- 316.647.4 Alienatie. Frustratie. Stress. Vervreemding --- Alienatie. Frustratie. Stress. Vervreemding --- 316.323.9 Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- Cultuursociologie: contact tussen culturen --- Réfugiés --- Social aspects
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Passionate, vigorous and uncompromising this book takes the lid off the confused Western response to the Balkan war. The author raises a series of timely and acute questions about the future of postmodernism and postcommunism. The author claims that the Balkan war has de-railed the movement for unification in Europe. The Islamic world has seen that the West is quite willing to bomb Muslim targets, from Iraq to Somalia, but absolutely unwilling to wage a `just war' to save the Bosnian Muslims. He concludes that the Balkan war is a key catalyst in the unravelling of the West.
Post-communism. --- Postmodernism --- World politics --- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995. --- Social aspects. --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization. --- Postcommunism --- War in former Yugoslavia, 1991-1995 --- Yugoslav Conflict, 1991-1995 --- Yugoslav Wars of Secession, 1991-1995 --- North Atlantic treaty organisation --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization --- Communism --- Yugoslav War Crime Trials, Hague, Netherlands, 1994 --- -Social aspects. --- NAVO --- OTAN --- Post-communism --- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 --- #SBIB:321H30 --- #SBIB:328H271 --- 316.323.9 --- 316.323.9 Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- -Postcommunism --- Social aspects --- Hedendaagse politieke en sociale theorieën (vanaf de 19de eeuw): algemeen (incl. utilitarisme, burgerschap) --- Instellingen en beleid: Balkanstaten: Roemenië, Bulgarije, Ex-Joegoslavië, Albanië e.a --- NATO. --- Postcommunisme --- Postmodernisme --- Politique mondiale --- Aspect social
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