Miriam Ticktin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (California, 2011) and co-editor (with Ilana Feldman) of In the Name of Humanity: the Government of Threat and Care (Duke, 2010). She is a founding editor of the journal Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development.