Helping Familiar Strangers

Refugee Diaspora Organizations and Humanitarianism

Louise Olliff

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Indiana University Press
06 December 2022

Refugees & political asylum; Migration, immigration & emigration; International humanitarian law

Series: Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration

"Who helps in situations of forced displacement? How and why do they get involved?

In Helping Familiar Strangers, Louise Olliff focuses on one type of humanitarian group, refugee diaspora organizations (RDOs), to explore the complicated impulses, practices, and relationships between these activists and the ""familiar strangers"" they try to help. By documenting findings from ethnographic research and interviews with resettled and displaced persons, RDO representatives, and humanitarian professionals in Australia, Switzerland, Thailand, and Indonesia, Olliff reveals that former refugees are actively involved in helping people in situations of forced displacement and that individuals with lived experience of forced displacement have valuable knowledge, skills, and networks that can be drawn on in times of humanitarian crisis.

We live in a world where humanitarians have varying motivations, capacities, and ways of helping those in need, and Helping Familiar Strangers confirms that RDOs and similar groups are an important part of the tapestry of care that people turn to when seeking protection far from home."

By: Louise Olliff
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 395g
ISBN: 9780253063564
ISBN 10: 0253063566
Series: Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 06 December 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. Humanitarianism and the international refugee regime 2. The ecology of refugee diaspora humanitarianism 3. Forces that compel 4. Modalities: governance and economies 5. Modalities: mobility, (in)visibility, knowledge, and networks 6. Implications and imaginings 7. Helping familiar strangers Epilogue Appendix Bibliography

Louise Olliff is Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at Australian National University (ANU), Senior Policy Advisor for the Refugee Council of Australia, and Adjunct Fellow at the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI) at Western Sydney University.

Reviews for Helping Familiar Strangers: Refugee Diaspora Organizations and Humanitarianism

"""Helping Familiar Strangers unravels the motivations and dynamics that inform acts of helping, with a specific focus on refugee diaspora humanitarianism. . . . Olliff's argument is convincing and well-grounded.""—Antonio De Lauri, author of The Politics of Humanitarianism"