Project description
The role of NGOs in refugee management
To manage refugee influx and the impact of their integration, local, international, governmental and non-governmental institutions have been called to the fore. According to the EU-funded HARBOR project, humanitarian ideals may not work in favour of refugees. It will examine whether humanitarianism has a positive or negative impact on refugees and to what extent non-profit organisations can influence the lives of refugees. The project which is a feminist transnational comparison will study the role the NGOs play in refugee management. It will also challenge the idea that borders represent protection.
Objective
HARBOR—Humanitarianism and Refugees at the Border—departs from the idea that humanitarianism is a neutral and timeless ideology, and instead turns a critical eye towards this sector to understand the ways in which nonprofit organizations become complicit with the neoliberal order—through reinforcing certain ideals of citizenship and sovereignty, occupying spaces that are destined for public institutions, and influencing refugees’ decision-making processes—and their possibilities for resistance. This feminist transnational comparison project expands my previous research in the refugee nonprofit sector at the US-Mexico border by including the two other most sought-after destinations in the world for refugees: Australia and Europe. Its aim is to make connections between nonprofit local practices and global dynamics to draw broader conclusions about the role nonprofit organizations play within refugee management. Through a combination of a transnational feminist lens and a Foucauldian framework, as well as ethnographic, participant observation and interview methods, HARBOR will reconstruct the role that humanitarian organizations play in the current refugee regime. In so doing, this project works at the connections between the academic, humanitarian, and policy-making sectors. In order to achieve my research objectives, I will be based at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane Australia where I will be trained in Global Governance and feminist political theory under the supervision of Dr. Hoffstaedter. Upon my return to my European host institution, CSIC, I will bring my new skills and engage in theory-building that challenges the idea of borders as protection with my mentor Professor Velasco at the Humanities Research Center.
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- social sciences sociology ideologies
- social sciences sociology demography human migrations
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
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28006 Madrid
Spain
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