Migrant Search and Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean by Humanitarian Organizations: Migrant Smuggling or Humanitarian Assistance?

Rescue medical activities in the mediterranean migrant crisis

The central Mediterranean route, between Libya and Italy, is considered the most dangerous of the migration pathways to Europe. In 2015, 3771 people died trying to reach Europe’s shores; and there were 4655 deaths or disappearances between January and November 2016 [1]. In response to this extreme situation, in early 2016, Medicines du Monde France (MdM), in partnership with SOS Mediterranee, l...

Migrant Organizations

People with similar conceptions of life or shared interests organize themselves in various ways into associations. This is also true of migrants who form organizations because of their common cultural, political, economic or social interests and values. Roughly one-fifth of the German population has a so-called migration background which means that they can point to their own experiences with m...

An Annotated Bibliography Migrant Smuggling in Asia

Humanitarian Information Exchange Network: Why Do International Humanitarian Organizations Collaborate?

While in recent years research has highlighted the rise of inter-organizational collaboration among organizations in the nonprofit sector and has documented issues related to forming and maintaining of these relationships, there is little known about inter-organizational humanitarian information exchange and especially the motives of collaboration. In this paper, we examine collaboration relati...

Burma and the challenge of humanitarian assistance.

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