Grappling with power and inequality in humanitarian interventions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9974039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Vickers (0000-0001-5430-290X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 625-627 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020872815597417 |
| OpenAlex | W1848169399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
In June 2014 the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that the number of international refugees had exceeded 50 million, the highest number since the Second World War.This reflects the proliferation of crises resulting from war, state repression, natural disasters, and poverty, which also affect the many millions more who stay behind in those situations refugees flee.Given social work's commitment to social justice and human rights, it is unsurprising that social workers frequently play a key role in responding, although until quite recently they have often been missing from the literature and their contribution to policy and practice in humanitarian interventions globally is often uncoordinated and inconsistent (Harding and Libal 2012).Social workers intervene in many different ways, as demonstrated by the range of articles in this special issue, and they do so within contexts that are frequently power-laden, contested, and chaotic.'Disasters' may be both humanitarian and political.As many of the contributors to this special issue point out, even in the case of natural events such as earthquakes or floods, it is social relations that influence how people are affected, physically, socially, and psychologically, and how reconstruction or post-disaster development is conducted
Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human rights · Humanitarian aid · Internally displaced person · Natural disaster · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Power (physics · Psychological intervention · Refugee · Sociology · Disaster Response and Management · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |