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Author_Tony Waters
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camp
camp demography analysis
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donor influence in relief
East Timor
Echo
emergency response management
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forced migration studies
forcible
Forcibly Repatriated
humanitarian governance
humanitarian relief bureaucracy critique
international
international aid agencies
International Refugee Relief Regime
Kagera River
Karagwe District
LWF
Michael Hyaen
MSF
ngara
Ngara Camp
refugee
Refugee Assistance Agencies
Refugee Relief
Refugee Relief Operation
refugees
regime
relief
Relief Operation
repatriation
RPF
Rwanda Refugee
rwandan
Rwandan Refugee
Tanzanian Camps
UN
UNHCR Field Officer
UNHCR Staff
Voluntary Repatriation
Voluntary Repatriation Program
Young Men
Zairean Camps
Product details
- ISBN 9780367098476
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and moral assumptions of the ?international refugee relief regime.? Tony Waters emphasizes that the agencies delivering humanitarian relief are embedded in rationalized bureaucracies whose values are determined by their institutional frameworks. The demand for ?victims? is observed in the close relation between the interests of the popular press and the decisions made by bureaucracies.This presents a paradox in all humanitarian relief organizations, but perhaps no more so than in the Rwanda Relief Operations (1994-96) which ended in the largest mass forced repatriation since the end of World War II. This crisis is analyzed with an assumption that there is a basic contradiction between the demands of the bureaucratized organization and the need of relief agencies to generate the emotional publicity to sustain the interest of northern donors. The book concludes by noting that if refugee relief programs are to become more effective, the connection between the press's emotional demands for ?victims? and the bureaucratic organizations's decision processes need to be identified and reassessed.
Tony Waters
