Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

The vast majority of forced migrants & refugees seek shelter and respite in countries of the Global South, where humanitarian spaces and practices of care are no exceptions to international humanitarianism but rather part of a project founded on hybrid forms of care that include local and vernacular practices. Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It applies a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.

Arzoo Osanloo is Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She is the author of the award-winning book Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims’ Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2020), and The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2009).

Cabeiri deBergh Robinson is Associate Professor of International Studies and Anthropology at the University of Washington. She co-edited The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies (Palgrave, 2023), and is the author of Bernard Cohn Book Prize winner Body of Witness, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists (University of California Press, 2013).

Arzoo Osanloo is Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She is the author of the award-winning book Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims’ Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2020), and The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2009).

“This volume is a timely and seminal contribution to understanding our time when humanitarian crisis unfolds in myriad forms in various sites. The perspectives on humanitarianism from the global South featured in this volume are both rich in their ethnographic grounding and multi-faceted in the analytical insights.” • Jiazhi Fengjiang, University of Edinburgh