Client or Volunteer? Understanding Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism Within International Volunteer Health Work

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15736615
AutoresOona St-Amant (0000-0003-4183-2949, Toronto Metropolitan University, autor de correspondencia), Catherine Ward-Griffin (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada), Catherine Ward‐Griffin (0000-0003-2118-952X, Western University), Hélène Berman (Western University), Arja Vainio-Mattila (Nipissing University)
Año2018
Volumen5
Páginas2333393618792956-2333393618792956
Fecha de publicación2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2333-3936 • E-ISSN: 2333-3936
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2333393618792956
PMID30151418
OpenAlexW2888435739
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas64

As international volunteer health work increases globally, research pertaining to the social organizations that coordinate the volunteer experience in the Global South has severely lagged. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to critically examine the social organizations within Canadian NGOs in the provision of health work in Tanzania. Multiple, concurrent data collection methods, including text analysis, participant observation and in-depth interviews were utilized. Data collection occurred in Tanzania and Canada. Neoliberalism and neocolonialism were pervasive in international volunteer health work. In this study, the social relations-"volunteer as client," "experience as commodity," and "free market evaluation"-coordinated the volunteer experience, whereby the volunteers became "the client" over the local community and resulting in an asymmetrical relationship. These findings illuminate the need to generate additional awareness and response related to social inequities embedded in international volunteer health work

Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Neocolonialism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Participant observation · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Volunteer · Volunteer work · Work (physics · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development · Travel-related health issues