300663 Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (MA: Soziologie der Globalen Welt) (S) (WiSe 2024/2025)

In this course, we study the humanitarian response to the refugee
crisis. How and with what motivations do
international humanitarian and relief agencies intervene to assist
people in the context of violent displacement?
What are their policies and how do they affect the livelihood
of refugees? How do international agencies partner with local agencies
if they do at all to deliver humanitarian aid to those in need? How has
the refugee camp become a phenomenon of our times for the management of
refugees? In this course, we will answer those questions and
also use a holistic perspective from the perspective of refugee
communities by finding the connection between
micro- and macro dimensions of the humanitarian response. Not least
we want to stress vernacular responses of refugees to re-organize their
lives in times of existential crisis.

Bibliography

Agier, Michel 2011: Managing the Undesirables: refugee camps and humanitarian government. Cambridge: Polity.