Humanitarian Politics and the Spectre of Illegitimacy

The political landscape in which the humanitarian movement took current form has changed radically. If humanitarian certainties have been upended, it is not in Sri Lanka, or even Syria or Afghanistan, but in the NGO response to the migration crisis in Greece and in the Mediterranean. However oversta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Rieff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Manchester University Press 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
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