Helping familiar strangers : refugee diaspora organizations and humanitarianism / Louise Olliff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olliff, Louise, author.

Series:

Worlds in crisis.

Worlds in crisis: refugees, asylum, and forced migration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees.

Non-governmental organizations.

Humanitarianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 221 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Humanitarianism and the International Refugee Regime

The Ecology of Refugee Diaspora Humanitarianism

Forces that Compel

Modalities: Governance and Economies

Modalities: Mobility, (In)Visibility, Knowledge, and Networks

Implications and Imaginings

Helping Familiar Strangers.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 1, 2023)

ISBN:

0-253-06358-2

0-253-06357-4

OCLC:

1379018343