Benevolence, Global Citizenship and Post-racial Politics

Jefferess, David

doi:10.3138/topia.25.77

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“…We would suggest future research ought to consider this. Moreover, we note that some of our participants evidenced some deficit thinking, benevolence mindsets, and othering (Bourdieu, 1989;Jefferess, 2011). Clearly, there is work and research to be done here.…”

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Mogadime¹

2019

Brock Education Journal

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Mogadime¹

2019

Brock Education Journal

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“…Hosts were clear in saying that they wanted students to learn from them, they strongly identified as teachers and central to student learning for those who were guests in their homes and communities. This is an interesting finding as it pushes up against dominant charity-model GSL discourse that centers students as benevolent helpers and those who hold knowledge and expertise (Jefferess, 2011(Jefferess, , 2012.…”

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Essential Participants: Centering the Experiences of Southern Hosts in Global Service-Learning Pedagogy and Practice

Vorstermans¹,

MacDonald²

2022

Frontiers

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In this paper we are concerned with the ways in which hosts are often excluded from scholarship and programming of global service learning. By global service learning (GSL), we mean a multiplicity of programs that occur facilitating service work for people across borders, generally with volunteers moving from the North to the South. We present findings from a research project conducted in 2014 with 37 host families. We circulated a survey to better understand host experiences of, expectations of, and hopes for GSL. Drawing on these survey results we provide some prompting questions for GSL participants (both students and program designers) to shift focus from student experience to relationship and mutuality. Using global service learning literature, critical disability theory and critical pedagogy through an intersectional lens, we center questions of uneven labor, accessibility, and structures of inequity. Three main themes emerged from our data: mutuality, gendered labor, and preparation. We present several infographic images capturing themes from the study to facilitate discussions with students who are preparing for GSL experiences and for those who are leading and designing programming. Our intention is to provide tools for educators to center the voices, desires, and motivations of Southern hosts in all of their GSL preparations.

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“…I explain here the politics of benevolence as the circumstances in which the state's apparatus underpins a certain ethics, implements practices, and develops programmes aimed to support people considered vulnerable. The politics of benevolence (Jefferess 2011(Jefferess , 2012(Jefferess , 2013Latief 2013) designed to help "vulnerable" people is rooted in a humanitarian ethics, whereas the political acts of benevolence are fulfilled within existing racist power structures (Carmichael andHamilton [1967] 1971). The notion of racism implicitly calls upon the debate on structural racism in Europe (Balibar 2009), more particularly acknowledging the existence of antiziganism and Romaphobia (see Agarin 2014) and how politics for Roma inclusion and the subsequent programs "not only expunges any explicit reference to racism but also condemns any attempts to bring racism up" (Maeso 2015, 64).…”

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Roma migrant children in Catalonia: between the politics of benevolence and the normalization of violence

Vrăbiescu

2016

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In this article, I engage with the current debate on Roma migrant children. Taking Catalonia as a case study, I tackle the separation of Romani children from their parents and the completion of pay-to-go schemes for marginalized Romanian Roma families. The focus lies within the allegedly humane logic of state institutions and civil-society organizations that reflect structural oppression and unveil everyday racism against Roma as a group. Specifically, I seek to explain the relation between the "voluntary return" practices and programs for child protection. The benevolent practices towards the migrant Roma families are considered to be grounded on child well-being. At the same time, the common and widespread practice of pay-to-go for poor Romani migrants push the families into a vicious circle of forced mobility. Therefore, I employ the theories of humanitarianism, and the critiques on the politics of benevolence, to reveal the institutional racism against the Romani migrants.

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Benevolence, Global Citizenship and Post-racial Politics

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