Bureaucratizing The Good Samaritan

The Limitations Of Humanitarian Relief Operations

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Tony Waters

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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 presss emotional demands for victims and the bureaucratic organizationss decision processes need to be identified and reassessed.

Author Biography:

Tony Waters teaches sociology at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Crime and Immigrant Youth and articles about refugees, migration, and development. He worked with refugee relief programs in Thailand and Tanzania for six years.

Release date NZ

January 26th, 2001

Author

Tony Waters

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

328

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780813367903

Product ID

2604600

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