Orphanages, Families, and Ethical Volunteering
Most students studying Social Anthropology probably already know about the problems of volunteering at orphanages overseas. Rebecca Smith on the Save the Children website states: Probably one of the most famous studies on the effects on orphanage care on children is...
Using overseas aid to curb ‘illegal’ migration and organised crime?
In August 2018, Theresa May announced that UK overseas aid would be refocused to 'crack down on illegal migration and organised crime and to support fragile countries in Africa'. She made the statement during a three-day trip to Africa, and you could say that her...
A ‘pornographic gaze’ or a necessary tactic?
Neil Howard, a Research Fellow at the University of Antwerp, wrote in April 2017 that, too often, the media and aid organizations represent young people as 'victims'. Not only is this sensationalizing, he says, but it misrepresents young people who are actually...
The mental health consequences of deportation
A student, Abby Harrison, sent along an article, 'The Trauma of Facing Deportation', that poses important questions for the class, and perhaps for anthropology in general. The article describes how children facing deportation fall into conditions of apathy, unable to...
The gratitude politics around refugees
One of the students, Iona Walker, sent this article, 'The ungrateful refugee' by Dina Nayeri, as food for thought. Thinking about gratitude (and related issues like gifts and reciprocity, indebtedness)--or more precisely, how we might inadvertently demand certain...
Beyond poverty alleviation?
I just read a post by Efosa Ojomo, a Research Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation (what a great name!), that argued for a shift in thinking from poverty to prosperity. What if the alleviation of poverty is the wrong problem that...
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