Pub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0006
Ilana Feldman
This chapter explores the limits of humanitarian care and capacity and what it means to live and practice up against these limits. This condition is broadly described as a circumstance of “undercare,” where people are cared for, but the care they receive is systemically inadequate. Humanitarian limits include the difficulty of reaching populations across the imposition and change of borders, the inability to access people targeted for violent assault, the incapacity of the humanitarian apparatus to respond to health-care needs of the elderly, and the circumstances of dying in old age. The humanitarian inability to provide adequate care is received by Palestinians as part of a constellation of threats to the population. They see undercare as part of a concerted effort to undermine their collective existence.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520299627.003.0004
Ilana Feldman
This chapter explores tensions in humanitarian relations. These relations contain both suspicion and compassion. Specifically, it considers the complexities of humanitarian subject positions, conflicts over humanitarian obligations, and dilemmas of humanitarian purpose. Some humanitarian workers are internationals; the majority are themselves refugees. Some refugee are paid for their work; others are volunteers. All of these positions are fraught. Providers and refugees also struggle over the nature and limits of humanitarian obligations. UNRWA’s mandate has expanded to include protection, but refugees also want representation. As threats to life recede, but need continues, the purpose of humanitarian action also becomes murky and contested. Humanitarians suggest that coping skills can be a humanitarian good. Recipients question whether bearing up under bad conditions can ever be enough.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520299627.003.0003
Ilana Feldman
This chapter traces transformations in the humanitarian-aid apparatus for Palestinian refugees over seventy years, looking particularly at rations provision and development projects. The overall trend has been from more comprehensive services to a reduced basket, but this trajectory has been regularly interrupted by new crises. Each change has been contested. Refugees have protested the poor quality and insufficient quantity of food. They have objected to the investigations that became increasingly a part of determining eligibility for ever more limited aid. Humanitarian development began with planning for infrastructure projects that would settle refugees, but in the face of opposition from multiple parties and practical limitations, this has come to focus on small-scale capacity building efforts.
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