Philippine history is in part a history of refugees. This thesis demonstrates that from the 1930s to the mid-1990s, refugees were associated with the process of Philippine state-formation. In its various political forms, the state granted asylum to a succession of refugee popula…
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This thesis tells a unique story of Britain’s medical humanitarian response and its politicisation, as the British government attempted to promote its position within a changing international global order. It examines the networks, debates and negotiations that took place betwee…
This dissertation analyzes the political geographies of humanitarianism in Europe’s Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs for migrants. Promoted as a humanitarian policy of migration management, and often implemented by humanitarian institutions, AVR programs provide counseli…
The Chinese government enacted the one-child policy during the late 1970s and early 1980s to curb the growth of the country’s swelling population. This extreme form of family planning marked the beginning of a radical social experiment that profoundly affected Canada’s social an…
“Caring for Korea” examines American relief work during and following the Korean War (1950-1953), and the way that humanitarianism shaped American Cold War approaches to empire. Centering aid workers, I highlight the lives and experiences of Americans who expressed concern for K…
This thesis examines data from a religion and values survey entitled Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG) conducted in the spring of 2018. The data for this research comes from a sample of college undergraduates from diverse nations, Portland State being one …
This dissertation examines the transnational efforts to abolish slavery in Saudi Arabia after 1945. The British Anti-Slavery Society spearheaded this global campaign and sought allies from Cairo to Cleveland. The Society’s major platform for publicity was the United Nations, and…
The politicization of humanitarian aid is one of the most polarizing issues facing the humanitarian sector today. There is a lack of consensus on the suitability and impact that aid politician has on humanitarian response efforts. Traditional humanitarians, known as Dunantists, …
This dissertation examines psychosocial interventions as specific social, political, medical, and ontological formations in the Kashmir valley. Till recently, medical humanitarianism was dominated by short-term, surgical interventions that focused on providing emergency biomedic…
Associating both the subject and object of this study with the dramaturgical world, Beyond the Security Drama aims to critically contextualize discourses, rhetoric, characters, behaviors, roles, performative capacities, choices, and decisions of constitutive actors of what is he…
My dissertation asks: (1) What are the meanings that faith-based organizations (FBOs) assign to their own values, identities, and practices?, and (2) How do such meanings shape the service-advocacy work of FBOs? Scholars are increasingly interested in the role of FBOs in areas o…
This dissertation examines how, why, and to what effect private voluntary organizations (PVOs) partnered with the U.S. federal government on projects aimed at fighting overseas hunger, disease, and poverty. Detailing the period between World War II and the passage of the 1973 Fo…
This dissertation examines the case of 250-300,000 largely Orthodox Christian refugees who fled Ottoman Bosnia and Hercegovina for the Habsburg Empire during the uprisings of 1875–1878. The violence during this period started out as a peasant uprising, but over the course of thr…
Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia In "Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia," I examine the humanitarian involvement in Aceh, Indonesia following two momentous events in Aceh's history: the earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004 and …
Background : Beginning in 2010, an unprecedented lead-poisoning outbreak in northern Nigeria has killed more than 700 children and endangered thousands more. The outbreak exemplified the intersection of global inequality, material poverty, economic globalization, and poverty-dri…
Africa has always been presented as a unique case in international relations theory. The imbalances inherited from colonization and the various challenges African nations faced following their independence coupled with weak institutional capability contributed to make the region…
Using narrative research study founded in social constructionism, I explored the lived experiences of thirty Afghan humanitarian aid workers in Kabul, Afghanistan, to discover how they experienced the war on terror. Ten participants were individually interviewed and their storie…
This study examines the intersection of humanitarianism and warfare conducted by Western states in the late-modern era. It compares the use of humanitarian discourse (HD) by officials and civil-elites within two crisis moments each for the 1999 NATO war over Kosovo and the 2003 …
Since the end of World War II, humanitarian non-governmental organizations (HNGOs), such as Oxfam, CARE and World Vision, have responded to natural disasters and complex emergencies by providing life-saving emergency relief aid across borders. International society perceives hum…