@incollection{fdi:010083439, title = {{F}igures of the cosmopolitan condition : the wanderer, the outcast, the foreigner}, author = {{A}gier, {M}ichel}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{I}n this chapter, {I} go through a series of figures embodying the cosmopolitan condition seen as a banal, everyday experience of migrants in urban borderlands. {U}sing ethnographic accounts of migrants' itineraries and social encounters, the chapter explores a series of urban spaces which are social "borderlands" and their inhabitants: neighbourhoods, squats, camps. {T}hrough stories and descriptions of connections and exploitation, settlement and displacement, it investigates the existence of an everyday or banal cosmopolitism experienced by {S}udanese, {E}ritrean, {S}ri {L}ankan, {A}fghan or {G}erman dwellers of {B}eirut, {P}aris, {P}atras, and {N}ew {Y}ork. {I}t describes the cosmopolitan condition in the sense of a lived experience, an experience of sharing the world, no matter how inegalitarian and violent this may be.}, keywords = {{MEDITERRANEE} ; {LIBAN} ; {BEYROUTH} ; {ESPAGNE} ; {CEUTA} ; {MELILLA} ; {MAROC} ; {SOUDAN} ; {SRI} {LANKA} ; {AFGHANISTAN} ; {ETATS} {UNIS} ; {NEW} {YORK} ; {FRANCE} ; {PARIS} ; {GRECE} ; {ERYTHREE} ; {PALESTINE} ; {PATRAS}}, booktitle = {{M}igration, urbanity and cosmopolitanism in a globalized world}, numero = {}, pages = {167--184}, address = {}, series = {{IMISCOE} {R}esearch {S}eries}, year = {2021}, DOI = {10.1007/978-3-030-67365-9_13}, ISBN = {978-3-030-67367-3}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010083439}, }