On Broker Exploitation and Violence
From Madalali to Cartel Bosses in the Food Aid Resale Economy of Tanzanian Refugee Camps
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3883710 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Clayton Boeyink (0000-0001-7076-6325, Etlik Zübeyde Hanım Kadın Hastalıkları Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Fascículo | 5 |
| Páginas | 962-986 |
| Data de publicação | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12697 |
| OpenAlex | W3216925426 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 37 |
It is a poorly kept humanitarian secret that wherever food aid is given, it is also sold, as recipients seek to vary their diets to include culturally desired food, start businesses, or deal with economic shocks. This holds true in Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, the site of this research. While this article addresses the supply side of the World Food Programme resale system, its main focus is the demand side, providing one of the first in-depth studies on what happens after the sale. Engaging with the political and development anthropology literature on brokers, the author introduces the intermediaries who make up this system, including low-level madalali brokers and refugee and Tanzanian 'bosses'. There is agreement within brokerage research of the moral 'ambiguity' or 'ambivalence' of these figures, a nebulous quality that is heightened by the seemingly innumerable different types of brokers. This article contends that a Marxian conceptualization of social class, beyond Bourdieu's widely applied social capital theory, is productive in understanding the threat of violence that a small cartel of bosses has set up in collusion with Tanzanian police to maintain the exploitative food aid resale pyramid. Members of this elite class are, in turn, 'products and producers' of a structurally violent encampment and aid system
Ambivalence · Business · Capital (architecture) · Cartel · Collusion · Economics · Industrial organization · Intermediary · Law and economics · Moral economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Marketing · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
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| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Altamente citado | Não |