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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. Humanitarianism and the Migration Crisis

Author : Daniela Irrera

Published in: Ideologies in World Politics

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Abstract

The chapter aims to discuss humanitarianism theoretically and empirically, the ways through which is adapted to changes in the global security environment, and how it faces most recent crises and emergencies, producing capabilities and responses. Humanitarianism is defined here as being a broad and comprehensive set of principles, values and norms which make all people in need deserving protection, relief, and support. This definition is investigated as an ideology, as a set of generalizing ideas designed to explain the social reality (namely conflicts, crises, and emergencies), as well as a practical and operative one, aiming at legitimizing and guiding those political action and decisions designed to mitigate the effects of war and deprivation. Migration is a paradigmatic case study. It represents a humanitarian emergency which has seriously challenged the capacities of the global system to properly manage human mobility.
The chapter aims at contributing to the scholarly debate, by replying to the following research questions:
  • To what extent has humanitarianism changed and adapted to developments in the management of crises and emergencies’?
  • How did this influence human mobility, migrants and refugees’ issues and the policies to cope with them?
  • What innovations have been brought in this policy field, in particular as for actors involved and practices developed?

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the University of Catania Research Plan 2016–2018, within the project on “The Italian policy on asylum and visa among internal and external dynamics. Principles, actors, processes”.
 
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Metadata
Title
Humanitarianism and the Migration Crisis
Author
Daniela Irrera
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Ideologies in World Politics

Print ISBN: 978-3-658-30511-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-30512-3

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30512-3_3