The process of adjusting to a new country may carry important stressors for refugees. In the
light of neoliberal policies, refugees are expected to become resilient in a local arrival …

The introduction to this collection brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and
grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded …

This paper aims to explore the ways which expertise is covertly racialized in the
contemporary humanitarian aid sector. While there are considerable discussions on the …

Recent research has highlighted the relevance of spaces of international aid and
development as sites where global politics materializes. However, the position of local aid …

The distinct subject positions of “beneficiaries” and “aid workers” pervade global aid
vernacular, the grey development literature, and the field of development studies, but this …

The role that technologies have historically played in producing and reproducing global
inequalities is well documented. Although technological innovation is associated with …

The Vulnerable Humanitarian challenges the prevalence of stress and burnout culture within
the aid sector, laying bare the issues of power, agency, security and wellbeing that continue …

This paper discusses practices and paradigms that expatriate and national humanitarian aid
workers use to deal with major problems they encounter in their daily work. It views …

Humanitarian aid stakeholders increasingly call for localisation: to ensure aid projects
utilise, and are informed by, local actors and their 'local knowledge'. This article explores …

Scholarship on invisible work highlights how volunteers' labour is devalued and obfuscated
because it is framed as something 'noneconomic'. This article shows how volunteers' labour …