The Shelter Multiple: How Humanitarianisms Hang Together at a Mexican Non-governmental Migrant Shelter.
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork at a nongovernmental migrant shelter in Mexico to examine how aid workers coordinate apparently contradictory humanitarian orientations. Prior research has called attention to the institutionalization of grassroots humanitarian organizations as they take...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 18; pp. 4440 - 4459 |
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