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The Stranger as My Guest
A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality
Michel Agier
Translated by Helen Morrison
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Originally published in French as L’étranger qui vient. Repenser l’hospitalité © Éditions du Seuil, 2018
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Names: Agier, Michel, 1953- author. | Morrison, Helen (Langauge translator), translator.
Title: The stranger as my guest : a critical anthropology of hospitality / Michel Agier ; translated by Helen Morrison.
Other titles: Étranger qui vient. English
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2021. | “Originally published in French as L’étranger qui vient. Repenser l’hospitalité, Edition du Seuil, 2018 .” | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A well-argued case for a new hospitality policy that welcomes foreigners as guests rather than treating them as aliens or enemies”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020028924 (print) | LCCN 2020028925 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509539888 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509539895 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509539901 (epub) | ISBN 9781509544929 (adobe pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Hospitality. | Immigrants--Government policy. | Refugees--Government policy. | Emigration and immigration--Social aspects. | Strangers.
Classification: LCC GT3410 .A4313 2021 (print) | LCC GT3410 (ebook) | DDC 395.3--dc23
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Acknowledgements
This essay is the result of various encounters. I would like to thank Patrick Boucheron and Alain Prochiantz for inviting me to take part in the symposium ‘Migrations, asile, exil’ (‘Migration, Asylum, Exile’) held at the Collège de France in November 2016, where my ideas on the social form and the politics of hospitality began to take shape. Cyrille Hanappe and the whole team at Actes & Cité invited me to participate in their project on ‘La Ville accueillante’ (‘The Welcoming City’) organised by PUCA (Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture) and by Ville de Grand-Synthe, thereby allowing me to discover the practical issues around municipal hospitality.
