Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe.
Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, bones, faces or irises, biometric …

This is an innovative new history of famine relief and humanitarianism. The authors apply a
moral economy approach to shed new light on the forces and ideas that motivated and …

This book is a study of compassion as a global project from Biafra to Live Aid. Kevin
O'Sullivan explains how and why NGOs became the primary conduits of popular concern for …

Abstract On September 28, 2018, a series of natural hazards struck the Indonesian province
of Central Sulawesi, resulting in unprecedented and widespread damage and loss. This …

The book traces the history of international humanitarianism from the anti-slavery movement
to the end of the cold war. It is based on an extensive survey of the international literature …

Many humanitarian actors now recognize that it is crucial to build response structures on the
basis of the norms, knowledge, and institutions of those affected by disasters. Currently, this …

This article traces the personal and institutional networks that facilitated the transnational
spread of Development Volunteering in the 1950s and 1960s. Examining Australia's …

This article explores how American and European humanitarian workers and organizations
treated, and represented, a group of Armenian women who were among those “absorbed” …

This article introduces an Africa-focused special issue showing that the rise of development
in its modern form coincided with the demise of the political legitimacy of forced labor. It …

In this interview with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Juliano Fiori—Head of Studies (Humanitarian
Affairs) at Save the Children—reflects on Eurocentrism and coloniality in studies of and …