Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention - Kelly Oliver (University of Minnesota Press) magazine March 6 to June 21

March 6 to June 21

Bashar Assaf and Mohammed Fakhro

between July and October 1993

and how it feels when your own children

Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention - Kelly Oliver (University of Minnesota Press) magazine March 6 to June 21Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to collateral damage in proxy wars fought in the war on terrorism. Carceral Humanitarianism testifies that humanitarian aid and human rights discourse are always political and partisan. Forerunners is a