الضيافة.. عمل إنساني بين الرعاية والاستقطاب والتضامن

Who is a humanitarian worker, and where is humanitarian work done? Humanitarian Action at Home focuses on humanitarian responses within the Global South and North, and critically examines the concept of hosting at home – people providing shelter in their homes to displaced people – as a widespread but understudied and underappreciated response to large-scale displacement. This book places home hosting practices and initiatives in the context of the current expansion of individual expressions of humanitarian action across a range of global contexts. It highlights the home as a key site of humanitarian hospitality, and addresses the implications of home hosting for humanitarian politics in general, and its relationship to the dynamics and structures of international relations and global politics. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial literature, the book grounds this analysis in a theory that articulates the interconnectedness between humanitarian work, home, and hospitality, contributing to a critical understanding of domestic hosting as a practice that is both everyday and universal—with its spatial, temporal, and relational dimensions. Overall, the book sees home hosting neither as a direct alternative to the prevailing international humanitarian system and its accompanying power structures, nor as a simple extension of it. Rather, given its multiplicity of expressions, it occupies an ambiguous position within the tensions between care and control, between co-optation and solidarity. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of humanitarian action, international relations, politics, and refugee and migration studies. It will be of particular interest to those who want to know how humanitarian responses have changed over time, how international organizations, as well as the general public, have dealt with humanitarian crises historically and in the present, and the policies for receiving and caring for displaced people within and across borders.