Counting the Refugees: Gifts, Givers, Patrons and Clients

Harrell-Bond, Barbara E.; Voutira, Eftihia; Leopold, Mark

doi:10.1093/jrs/5.3-4.205

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“…Thus, this practice somehow balances the power relationship generally existing between external aid and those receiving assistance. The anthropological work of Mauss and Cunnison (1970) and then Harrell-Bond (2002;Harrell-Bond et al 1992) have been critical about the norms of charity and gift giving that dominate humanitarian assistance. Harrell-Bond et al (1992) claim that within this approach there is no gift-giving reciprocity possible, and thus, the recipient is in an inferior position in relation to the aid provider.…”

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“…The anthropological work of Mauss and Cunnison (1970) and then Harrell-Bond (2002;Harrell-Bond et al 1992) have been critical about the norms of charity and gift giving that dominate humanitarian assistance. Harrell-Bond et al (1992) claim that within this approach there is no gift-giving reciprocity possible, and thus, the recipient is in an inferior position in relation to the aid provider. Moreover, in such an approach, disaster-affected people are perceived in terms of their needs rather than their strengths (Horst 2008).…”

Section: Remittances As Powerful Mechanism To Face Disastersmentioning

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Remittances in the face of disasters: a case study of rural Samoa

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Gaillard

Friesen

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Environ Dev Sustain

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In Samoa, like in most Small Island Developing States, remittances are important to sustain people's daily livelihood and become even more significant in the face of disasters. This study investigates the role of remittances in households' response to disasters. The focus is on Samoa, where participatory activities and interviews were carried out in coastal communities affected by the tsunami of 2009, and some of which were further hit by cyclone Evan in 2012. It is found that remittances are very fast in reaching those affected and remain high in the long term in order to cope with and recover from disaster. Moreover, remittances interact with external aid since remittances increase when external aid is low and decrease when external aid is higher. Households receiving remittances were able to deal more easily with immediate security needs and recovered more quickly than those with no or limited access to this resource. However, remittances also benefit the wider community, economically, socially, and culturally, for example in perpetuating local tradition. We conclude that governments and aid agencies should take into account remittances in their relief actions and recovery programs.

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Section: Remittances As Powerful Mechanism To Face Disastersmentioning

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Remittances in the face of disasters: a case study of rural Samoa

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Gaillard

Friesen

et al. 2014

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Such an empowerment process requires long-term efforts however, and tends to be less valued in a refugee setting by experts who label refugees as powerless and entrenched with characteristics of dependency, as they are an object of aid and under the protection of states and international agencies (Harrell-Bond, Voutira, & Leopold, 1992;Malkki, 1995). In this era of refugee donor fatigue, an exclusive strategy for professional service provision may increase inequalities in access to women's health care and therefore in the outcome of maternal health.…”

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Factors Affecting Women's Health-Related Behaviors and Safe Motherhood: A Qualitative Study From a Refugee Camp in Eastern Sudan

Furuta

Mori

2008

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We aim to provide a deeper understanding of a broader range of potential factors affecting risk behaviors related to safe motherhood among refugee women in Eastern Sudan, thus creating a basis for further research in behavioral change. Risk behaviors chosen for this study follow (1) practice of female genital cutting, (2) adopting family planning (FP) practices, (3) usage of a skilled birth attendant, and (4) response to obstetric complications. Analyzing findings with the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, we found that factors frequently were uncontrollable for an individual woman, suggesting the importance of a supportive political, social, and educational environment for safe motherhood.

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“…Food parcels, in themselves manifestations of entitlement distributed in systematic ways to those in priority need, come to symbolise the receipt of gifts from donors. Moreover, as Harrell-Bond et al (1992) forcefully argue, the relationship between refugees and humanitarian agencies is run along thin lines of moral order where control by donors and gratitude by supplicants becomes a standard feature of using food for survival. For the majority of people who are refugees, the possibility of using the food they are given to barter and exchange for other goods, or to vary their diets, exists only in the shadows.…”

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Food and its meaning for asylum seeking children and young people in foster care

Kohli

Connolly

Warman³

2010

Children's Geographies

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There is little in the existing literature in refugee studies, foster care and the anthropology of food about the ways refugee and asylum seeking children regard food. This piece reports on two initiatives that delineate ways children seeking asylum and their carers understand food. The first is a research study examining unaccompanied asylum seeking children's perception of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, within which they focus on food and survival after arrival in the UK. The second, based on interviews with foster carers, is a practice orientated enquiry about food and its meaning in foster care. The findings suggest that food is related to many aspects of finding sanctuary, negotiating belonging within the foster family, and can powerfully evoke being at 'home' in a new land.

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Counting the Refugees: Gifts, Givers, Patrons and Clients

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Remittances in the face of disasters: a case study of rural Samoa

Remittances in the face of disasters: a case study of rural Samoa

Factors Affecting Women's Health-Related Behaviors and Safe Motherhood: A Qualitative Study From a Refugee Camp in Eastern Sudan

Food and its meaning for asylum seeking children and young people in foster care

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