This article presents early qualitative data from an ongoing project that includes interviews with members of a Syrian diaspora network engaged in giving and receiving philanthropy. With the onset of the Syrian refugee crisis, the network began to provide education for displaced Syrian children in Lebanon in addition to its other activities. The purpose of the research project is to understand motivations and mechanisms of humanitarian assistance toward a conflict region, and also if and how the practice of philanthropy is tied to peacebuilding on the ground and individuals’ sense of political efficacy. This article gives particular attention to the civil society aspects of diasporan assistance, and how those engaged in humanitarian aid conceive of their influence on politics, policy, and peacebuilding.
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Syrian Diasporans as Transnational Civil Society Actors
Perspectives from a Network for Refugee Assistance
Shawn Teresa Flanigan and Mounah Abdel-Samad
Coming Together in the So-Called Refugee Crisis
A Collaboration Among Refugee Newcomers, Migrants, Activists and Anthropologists in Berlin
Nasima Selim, Mustafa Abdalla, Lilas Alloulou, Mohamed Alaedden Halli, Seth M. Holmes, Maria Ibiß, Gabi Jaschke, and Johanna Gonçalves Martín
In 2015, Germany entered what would later become known as the ‘refugee crisis’. The Willkommenskultur (welcoming culture) trope gained political prominence and met with significant challenges. In this article, we focus on a series of encounters in Berlin, bringing together refugee newcomers, migrants, activists and anthropologists. As we thought and wrote together about shared experiences, we discovered the limitations of the normative assumptions of refugee work. One aim of this article is to destabilise terms such as refugee, refugee work, success and failure with our engagements in the aftermath of the ‘crisis’. Refugee work is not exclusively humanitarian aid directed towards the alleviation of suffering but includes being and doing together. Through productive failures and emergent lessons, the collaboration enhanced our understandings of social categories and the role of anthropology.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 34–44 (10 total)
Neutrality in foreign aid
Shifting contexts, shifting meanings—examples from South Sudan
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
activities, I want to demonstrate how strongly the ideals, which are set up for the very narrow context of humanitarian aid delivery, in fact infiltrate all different aspects of aid workers’ lives. The events presented here took place shortly after the
Lukas Ley and Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
-century teleological futurism of capitalism, state socialism or neoliberalism, argue Bandak and Anderson, is its ‘presentism’ in the sense of François Hartog (2015) . Bandak and Anderson identify presentism in secular instruments of humanitarian aid, management
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Editorial
- Pages:
- v–viii
From Vulnerability to Trust
Personal Encounters and Bordering Processes in the British Refugees Welcome Movement
Pierre Monforte and Gaja Maestri
of humanitarian aid, in a context in which refugees are reduced to their “bare life” and denied political agency ( Agamben 1998 ). This humanitarian logic of “dehumanisation and depoliticization” ( Stavinoha and Ramakrishnan 2020 ) is closely linked
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 59–74 (16 total)
Emily Anderson
with others in digital spaces. International development and humanitarian aid organizations, like UNICEF, have historically used old media tools to advance their agendas. Policy actors have expanded their engagement with new media tools to promote
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 88–104 (17 total)
Fatima Khan, Claudia Mitchell, and Marni Sommer
Bettina Dembek. Commemorative Memorials Figure 10 Memorials commemorating Jackie and the efforts of humanitarian aid workers: McGill University, Montreal, Canada (left and center); Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (right). Photos by Sadaf Farookhi (center), Fatima
The Obligation Is the Point
‘Refugee 2 Refugee’ Care and Solidarity in Greece
Zareena Grewal
be non-partisan and apolitical, critical refugee studies scholars who have inherited Michel Foucault's biopolitical framework ( 2003 ) have demonstrated the myriad ways in which humanitarian aid and human rights discourses are inherently political
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 70–91 (22 total)
Expat, Local, and Refugee
“Studying Up” the Global Division of Labor and Mobility in the Humanitarian Industry in Jordan
Reem Farah
? And what implications does this have on humanitarian aid? Using the methodology of “studying up,” which I expand on below, this article observes the managers of displacement—or the humanitarian industry—as a transnational industry, and its workers as
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 130–144 (15 total)
Engaging Anthropology in an Ebola Outbreak
Case Studies from West Africa
Emilie Venables and Umberto Pellecchia
practical actions that can drive humanitarian strategies and health-care policies if a similar outbreak situation should happen again. The use of anthropologists in humanitarian aid and development organisations has been growing over recent years, with