Altruistic Exploitation
Orphan Tourism and Global Social Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10898743 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Smith Rotabi (0000-0003-4685-6667, 1United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, corresponding author), Jini L Roby (0000-0001-5752-0961, 2Brigham Young University, School of Social Work, Provo, Utah, 84602, USA), Kelley McCreery Bunkers (0000-0002-0440-6126, 3Independent Child Protection Consultant) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 648-665 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcv147 |
| OpenAlex | W2412505835 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 33 |
Despite the abundant scientific evidence demonstrating the benefits of family-based care for children and the damages brought on by institution-based care, the social work profession continues to endorse and engage in practices that promote the latter. This is particularly true through orphan tourism and orphan volunteerism—short- and longer-term forms of providing aid to residential facilities caring for children. Using educational tours to orphanages, fundraising and service projects, and academic internships based in such facilities, the profession contributes to the perpetuation of institution-based care and forms of exploitation. Based on an exhaustive review of the global literature and utilising an innovative theoretical framework of ‘altruistic exploitation’, the authors explore the ironic juxtaposition of benefits and harms associated with orphan tourism to the various stakeholders. Volunteers are often exploited in fulfilling their altruistic motives while at the same time engaging in potential exploitation of the very children they aim to serve. Authors further examine social work implications in the policy, practice and research arenas, and provide examples and recommendations in preventing family separation, promoting family-based alternative care and empowering communities
Business · Damages · Economics · Incentive · Institution · Internship · Orphan drug · Political science · Public relations · Service (business) · Tourism · Work (physics) · Engineering · Law · Marketing · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Paternal Orphanhood, Parental Illness, and Child’s Biological Relationship to Household Head
Identifying clientelism in orphanages
Clientelism in Cambodian residential care institutions
Ethical but Amoral
Host-children of tourism destinations
Gauging indirect stakeholder sentiment towards orphanage tourism on Twitter
Comparing reunified and residential care facility children's wellbeing in Ghana
A scoping review of children's experiences of residential care settings in the global South
Conceptualising children’s life histories and reasons for entry into residential care in the Philippines
Child Sex Tourism
I hate those words, I love you!’. Care-leavers’ reflections of orphanage tourism
Navigating uncharted terrain
Testing the impact of orphan status, illness in the household, and a child's relationship to the household head on wasting in Nigeria
Participant reflections on short-term international volunteering
Professionalism, privilege and publicity
What is your name, where do you come from, what is your grade?’ Using art-based interviews to highlight the experience of children hosting school tours in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
Human Rights and Social Work
The possible negative impacts of volunteer tourism
A Decommodified Experience? Exploring Aesthetic, Economic and Ethical Values for Volunteer Ecotourism in Costa Rica
Volunteer tourismDeconstructing volunteer activities within a dynamic environment
Human Rights and Social Work
Violence against children
The Development of Altruism
Aids orphan tourism
Enhancing Global Understanding with Study Abroad
The Fictions of Free Labour
Perspectives on Globalization, Social Justice and Welfare
Ethical Guidelines for Study Abroad
Globalization and Social Work
Decolonizing the pedagogy and practice of international social work
Human rights and community work
Field education in international social work
In the Third Space
Social and economic justice, human rights and peace
Exploitation and demeaning choices
Coerced, Forced and Unfree Labour
| Citations per year | 1.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |