Helping familiar strangers [electronic resource] : refugee diaspora organizations and humanitarianism

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서명/저자사항	Helping familiar strangers [electronic resource]: refugee diaspora organizations and humanitarianism / Louise Olliff.
개인저자	Olliff, Louise, author.
발행사항	Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, [2022]
형태사항	1 online resource (xxviii, 221 pages) : illustrations, maps.
총서사항	Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration Ser.
ISBN	9780253063571 0253063574 9780253063588 0253063582
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	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.
요약	"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"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Refugees. Refugees --Services for. Non-governmental organizations. Humanitarianism. Humanitarianism. Non-governmental organizations. Refugees. Refugees --Services for.
분류기호(DDC)	362.87
언어	영어
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