Helping Familiar Strangers
Refugee Diaspora Organizations and Humanitarianism
Seiten
2022
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06356-4 (ISBN)
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06356-4 (ISBN)
Who helps in situations of forced displacement? How and why do they get involved?
In Helping Familiar Strangers, Louise Olliff focuses on one type of humanitarian group, refugee diaspora organizations (RDOs), to explore the complicated impulses, practices, and relationships between these activists and the "familiar strangers" they try to help. By documenting findings from ethnographic research and interviews with resettled and displaced persons, RDO representatives, and humanitarian professionals in Australia, Switzerland, Thailand, and Indonesia, Olliff reveals that former refugees are actively involved in helping people in situations of forced displacement and that individuals with lived experience of forced displacement have valuable knowledge, skills, and networks that can be drawn on in times of humanitarian crisis.
We live in a world where humanitarians have varying motivations, capacities, and ways of helping those in need, and Helping Familiar Strangers confirms that RDOs and similar groups are an important part of the tapestry of care that people turn to when seeking protection far from home.
In Helping Familiar Strangers, Louise Olliff focuses on one type of humanitarian group, refugee diaspora organizations (RDOs), to explore the complicated impulses, practices, and relationships between these activists and the "familiar strangers" they try to help. By documenting findings from ethnographic research and interviews with resettled and displaced persons, RDO representatives, and humanitarian professionals in Australia, Switzerland, Thailand, and Indonesia, Olliff reveals that former refugees are actively involved in helping people in situations of forced displacement and that individuals with lived experience of forced displacement have valuable knowledge, skills, and networks that can be drawn on in times of humanitarian crisis.
We live in a world where humanitarians have varying motivations, capacities, and ways of helping those in need, and Helping Familiar Strangers confirms that RDOs and similar groups are an important part of the tapestry of care that people turn to when seeking protection far from home.
Louise Olliff is Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at Australian National University (ANU), Senior Policy Advisor for the Refugee Council of Australia, and Adjunct Fellow at the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI) at Western Sydney University.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
1. Humanitarianism and the international refugee regime
2. The ecology of refugee diaspora humanitarianism
3. Forces that compel
4. Modalities: governance and economies
5. Modalities: mobility, (in)visibility, knowledge, and networks
6. Implications and imaginings
7. Helping familiar strangers
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; 5 Maps; 13 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 395 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-253-06356-6 / 0253063566 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-06356-4 / 9780253063564 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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