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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Louise OlliffPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Weight: 0.572kg ISBN: 9780253063557ISBN 10: 0253063558 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 06 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface 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 BibliographyReviewsHelping Familiar Strangers unravels the motivations and dynamics that inform acts of helping, with a specific focus on refugee diaspora humanitarianism. . . . Olliff's argument is convincing and well-grounded. -Antonio De Lauri, author of The Politics of Humanitarianism """Helping Familiar Strangers unravels the motivations and dynamics that inform acts of helping, with a specific focus on refugee diaspora humanitarianism. . . . Olliff's argument is convincing and well-grounded.""—Antonio De Lauri, author of The Politics of Humanitarianism" Helping Familiar Strangers unravels the motivations and dynamics that inform acts of helping, with a specific focus on refugee diaspora humanitarianism. . . . Olliff's argument is convincing and well-grounded.--Antonio De Lauri, author of The Politics of Humanitarianism Author InformationLouise 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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