L'humanitaire version start-up Ghallal, Sabrina
Hermès (Paris, France : 1988),
01/2022, Volume:
89, Issue:
1
Journal Article
It all starts with this offer on social networks where students from a French high school exchange tips. A student who has just returned from Nepal, where she has just spent six months as a ...volunteer, promotes a humanitarian association. Without hesitation, all agree to be put in touch with the association. It is in this capacity that with a medical student I also decided to go to the end of the world for a humanitarian mission.
•Refugee camps are crucial spaces for working out refugee identity and claims.•The meanings ascribed to camps shape relations among various actors in these spaces.•The humanitarian, political, and ...emotional aspects of camps all impact refugee lives.•Camps are sites for the articulation of arguments about what constitutes a legitimate refugee life.
Given their importance to a range of actors, refugee camps are an excellent site to consider the production of legitimacy in “anomalous geopolitical spaces.” Rather than focusing on how the parties that govern camps gain legitimacy, or do not, in the eyes their inhabitants, this essay considers the problem of refugee lives: how various actors define the right way to live as a refugee, what role they ascribe to refugee camps in this way of living, and the complex realities of actual refugee lives amidst these various claims. The legitimacy at issue here is not of a form of governing, but of a way of being, of living. Different arguments about the right way of being depend to a considerable degree on the perspectives these actors bring to bear: whether they approach refugees as primarily recipients of assistance, political symbols and actors, or multi-faceted subjects with a range of concerns. There is, of course, no final arbiter to decide what actually is the right way of living as a refugee: it is an ongoing debate. Even without resolution, these different arguments about legitimate refugee life are consequential, in no small part because they can shape the contours of people’s lives and relationships and influence the allocation of resources.
Providing appropriate, early, and ongoing mental health care to refugees and asylum seekers benefits not only the individual but the host nation, as it improves the chances of successful ...reintegration, which has long-term benefits for the social and economic capital of that country, which will likely impact not only the displaced generation but the second generation as well 15. Bringing together the global literature on the prevalence of mental illness in refugee and asylum-seeker populations would also enable the research community to move ahead and focus on different components of the mental health needs of this population, for example, on interventions, on less well-understood mental health conditions, or longitudinal mental health trajectories. Studies were included if (1) the sample solely comprised adult refugees and/or asylum seekers residing outside their country of origin, (2) had a sample size larger than 50, and (3) reported quantitative prevalence estimates of a mental illness as classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) 17 or the International Classification of Disease (ICD) 18. Data analysis Using a fixed protocol, two review authors (RB and MG-H) independently extracted statistical data and study characteristics: host country, publication year, sample size, country or region of origin, sampling method, diagnostic tool and criteria, use of interpreter, age, proportion of female participants, visa status, duration of displacement, and prevalence of mental illness (numerator and denominator).
Abstract
The career of the incentive has been meteoric and global, cropping up in peace‐building, state‐building, global health, and humanitarian contexts across the world. In this paper, I consider ...incentive work from the vantage point of independence‐era South Sudan. In doing so, I build conversations between geography and spatially sensitive anthropology about the power of social forms to shape action, through an attention to the porous and polyvalent logics of legitimation entailed in ‘creative fictions’. Attention to the modes of legitimation help to understand not only what social forms do, but also how they emerge, travel, and are appropriated and repurposed for use by new sets of actors. In tracing the transit of incentive work from development practice into humanitarian programming, I understand incentive work as a creative fiction—an intangible social form that animates and channels action to generative ends. While incentive work emerged as a tidy solution to constraints within the humanitarian sector on who might be paid for what kind work, the social form of incentive work proliferated. Set free from those constraints, incentive work offered up channels of accumuclation to new actors—including mid‐level state functionaries—by mobilizing and ligitimating claims on un‐ and under‐compensated labour though a call to
voluntas
, the morally inflected volitional ethos of volunteerism.
Short Abstract
The career of the incentive has been meteoric and global, cropping up in peace‐building, state‐building, global health, and humanitarian contexts across the world. In tracing the transit of incentive work from development practice into humanitarian programming, I understand incentive work as a creative fiction—an intangible social form that animates and channels action to generative ends. Released from those constraints, incentive work offered up channels of accumuclation to new actors by mobilizing and ligitimating claims on un‐ and under‐compensated labour though an appeal to
voluntas
, the morally inflected volitional ethos of volunteerism.
Geographies of resilience Weichselgartner, Juergen; Kelman, Ilan
Progress in human geography,
06/2015, Volume:
39, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
In disaster science, policy and practice, the transition of resilience from a descriptive concept to a normative agenda provides challenges and opportunities. This paper argues that both are needed ...to increase resilience. We briefly outline the concept and several recent international resilience-building efforts to elucidate critical questions and less-discussed issues. We highlight the need to move resilience thinking forward by emphasizing structural social-political processes, acknowledging and acting on differences between ecosystems and societies, and looking beyond the quantitative streamlining of resilience into one index. Instead of imposing a technical-reductionist framework, we suggest a starting basis of integrating different knowledge types and experiences to generate scientifically reliable, context-appropriate and socially robust resilience-building activities.
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