https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Making-Refuge-in-a-Neoliberal-Country https://booksandideas.net/Making-Refuge-in-a-Neoliberal-Country 2019-04-04T06:00:00Z text/html en Yasmine Bouagga Society International migration anthropology Africa integration refugees Text Interviews Books and ideas originals Somalia <p>How do refugees experience everyday life in the United States? Anthropologist Catherine Besteman investigates the trajectories of Somalian refugees in Lewinston, Maine, from their application for resettlement to their struggles in a world that disrupts their social organization and their way of living.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Collateral-Victims-of-the-RSA https://booksandideas.net/The-Collateral-Victims-of-the-RSA 2011-01-12T07:31:44Z text/html en Hélène Périvier Society poverty labour precarity means-tested benefits integration <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>The <span class="caps">RSA</span> (Active Solidarity Income) is supposed to reduce poverty by one third between now and 2012. It is based on the observation that work doesn't pay enough to keep some people out of poverty. But the reform is based on certain implicit assumptions. According to Hélène Périvier, the problem is not so much inadequate pay as lack of jobs, underemployment, and the numerous problems faced by people without jobs.</p>