Migrants

Focus

Responding to a non-traditional humanitarian crisis: the case of Northern Central America

The “Northern Triangle” of Central America might seem a good place to put the famous nexus into practice. However, the author feels that, for too long, the favour given to...

Julio E. Rank Wright

Focus

To trust or not to trust? Learning from migrants perspectives on humanitarian action in Honduras

For migrant populations subjected to violence of all kinds, trust in humanitarian actors is essential. The study the two authors draw on is invaluable in showing that this trust is...

Magdalena Arias Cubas - Norma Archila Salgado

Forum

The reception system for asylum seekers: are civil society organisations still free to pursue their mission?

Published on August 16, 2022 The impact of a management approach in line with market logic is increasingly felt, including in migrant aid schemes. This is what Giorgia Trasciani explains...

Giorgia Trasciani

Editorial Focus

The cause of migrants at threat from the rise of nationalisms: what path for international solidarity organisations?

Co-editor of this issue’s Focus with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief

Clara Egger

Focus

The cause of exiles in France: the reticence of international humanitarian organisations called into question

All over France, solidarity with migrants is demonstrated through multiple initiatives led by local associations. But for Frédéric Meunier, the major humanitarian NGOs are not doing enough of their part...

Frédéric Meunier

Focus

The contributions of clinical sociology research to the socio-humanitarian sector

In this article, the author invites us into her engaged and reflective personal journey as a researcher. When she began to measure the limits that she believes thwart the methods...

Maritza Perdreros

Perspectives

Sheltering, hosting or receiving refugees: the unresolved ambiguities of the La Linière refugee camp

Frank Esnée and Michaël Neuman invite us here to follow up on previous work. The latter and Angélique Muller already wrote an article about the social and political actors of...

Franck Esnée - Michaël Neuman

Editorial Focus

Forced migrations: a necessary humaneness

We have discussed what would be the added value of Humanitarian Alternatives’ contributing to the abundant debate over migrants and moving populations. First and foremost, the migrant crisis constitutes a...

Jean-Baptiste Richardier - Serge Breysse

Perspectives

Médecins Sans Frontières-France: tensions arising from the “Migration” projects

Can Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) be first responder, advisor and activist, all at the same time? While the organisation has never seemed to be on the front line with regards...

Michaël Neuman

Focus

Humanitarianism at the heart of tomorrow’s urban challenges

The urban clinical picture is disquieting, but not hopeless. Emmanuel Matteudi, in his analysis of the world’s urban explosion, appropriately reminds us that humanitarianism, lying at the heart of the...

Emmanuel Matteudi

Focus

The “hybridisation of humanitarianism”: ordinary citizens in French migrant camps

In 1968, French doctors decided to travel to Biafra to help the Igbo people. Later, they supported migrants in the South China Sea and elsewhere. Now, working alongside NGOs, ordinary...

Marjorie Gerbier-Aublanc

Forum

Venezuelan migrations in Latin America in a context of humanitarian crisis: stakes and challenges in aid for migrants

Published on October 18, 2017 ©Photo by Andrés Gerlotti on Unsplash As a result of her article on aid for refugees in Ecuador – which will be featured in the...

Lucie Laplace