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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Care in a Time of Humanitarianism: Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South
Arzoo Osanloo and Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

Part I: Refuge, Law, and Empire in the Global South

Chapter 1. Patriation: Conceptualizing Migration after Empire
Pamela Ballinger

Chapter 2. Staging Filipino Hospitality: Transitional Intimacies of Jewish Refuge in the Commonwealth Philippines
James Pangilinan

Chapter 3. Burma Evacuees: R. Sanyassiah, Post-war Return, and Displacement in Modern South Asia
Emma C. Meyer

Chapter 4. Khao-i-Dang Refugee Camp: Local Hosts and Hauntings of the Third Indochina War in a Transit Zone
Khathaleeya Liamdee

Chapter 5. A ‘Lucky Escape’: Ethnic Cleansing and What Happens When International Humanitarianism Fails
Kathie Friedman-Kasaba

Chapter 6. Benevolent Arts: The Persistence of Mercy in Humanitarian Logics
Arzoo Osanloo

Part II: Aid, Intimacy, and Humanitarian Praxis

Chapter 7. Humanitarian Departures: Reflections of a Refugee Aid Worker
Ilana Feldman

Chapter 8. Quiet Aid: Barbara Schöfnagel’s Private Humanitarianism in the Socialist Gray Area (and What Else the Global East Can Teach Us)
Cristian Capotescu

Chapter 9. Yūsuf’s Struggle: Negotiating Development and Charity in a Palestinian Refugee Camp
Gözde Burcu Ege

Chapter 10. “They are Muhajir, We are Ansar:” Godforsakenness at the Myanmar-Bangladesh Border
Tanzeen Rashed Doha

Chapter 11. “We’re All Humanitarians”: International Humanitarian Organizations, Islamist Service Societies, and the Practice of ‘Humanitariyan Jihad’ in Kashmir
Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

Part III: Repair in a World of Care

Chapter 12. Red Coat, Denim Shirt: Conceptualizing Displacement Across Generations
Rawan Arar

Chapter 13. The Barrette: Unlikely Humanitarian Images and Practices of Repair
Jenna Grant

Chapter 14. Memoir and a Sinking Ship: Reconstituting Sovereignty through Refugee Narratives
Megan Butler

Chapter 15. The Gift of Food: An Islamic Ethics of Care
Amira Mittermaier

Chapter 16. Mothering the Dead: Care Beyond Life in Kurdistan
Mediha Sorma

Chapter 17. Unintended Consequences: Debating the Protection of Cultural Heritage During Humanitarian Crises
Stephanie Selover

Conclusion: Concluding Conversation: A Global South’s Lessons in Humanitarianism
Arzoo Osanloo & Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

Appendix I: Pedagogical Supplement
Arzoo Osanloo & Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Edited by Arzoo Osanloo & Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

335 pages, 17 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-490-7 Hb Published (August 2024)

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“This volume is a timely and seminal contribution to understanding our time when humanitarian crisis unfolds in myriad forms in various sites. The perspectives on humanitarianism from the global South featured in this volume are both rich in their ethnographic grounding and multi-faceted in the analytical insights.” • Jiazhi Fengjiang, University of Edinburgh

The vast majority of forced migrants & refugees seek shelter and respite in countries of the Global South, where humanitarian spaces and practices of care are no exceptions to international humanitarianism but rather part of a project founded on hybrid forms of care that include local and vernacular practices. Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It applies a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.

Arzoo Osanloo is Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She is the author of the award-winning book Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims’ Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2020), and The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2009).

Cabeiri deBergh Robinson is Associate Professor of International Studies and Anthropology at the University of Washington. She co-edited The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies (Palgrave, 2023), and is the author of Bernard Cohn Book Prize winner Body of Witness, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists (University of California Press, 2013).

Series: Volume 5, Humanitarianism and Security

Subject: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Area: Asia Africa

LC: HV555.D44 C37 2024

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC066000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Refugees; SOC053000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Regional Studies

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Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Edited by Arzoo Osanloo & Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

Series: Volume 5, Humanitarianism and Security

Subject: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Area: Asia Africa

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the Mellon Foundation.

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Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Edited by Arzoo Osanloo & Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

Series: Volume 5, Humanitarianism and Security

Subject: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Area: Asia Africa

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the Mellon Foundation.