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The War on Rescue: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis (2024)
Book
Plowright, W. (in press). The War on Rescue: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis. Cornell University Press

The European Migration Crisis motivated people around the world to offer assistance to needy refugees and migrants across Europe, the Mediterranean, and North Africa. Both large and small organizations rushed to bring food, medical care, and rescue t... Read More about The War on Rescue: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis.

Humanitarianism’s Thin Red Line: Armed Escorts in Theory and Practice (2024)
Journal Article
Plowright, W. (2024). Humanitarianism’s Thin Red Line: Armed Escorts in Theory and Practice. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 5(3), 23-31. https://doi.org/10.7227/jha.114

In the twenty-first century, the number of attacks on humanitarian workers has dramatically increased, resulting in growing attention on the issue of safety and security (Neuman and Weissman, 2016). This insecurity has further led to an increase in t... Read More about Humanitarianism’s Thin Red Line: Armed Escorts in Theory and Practice.

Obstruction (2023)
Book Chapter
Plowright, W., Mitchell, K., & Pallister-Wilkins, P. (2023). Obstruction. In The Routledge Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism (259-270). Routledge

This chapter questions the externalities of humanitarianism and philanthropy, looking at the reactions to the humanitarian impulse to aid, and how these reactions may result in decreased access to services for vulnerable people. Specifically, it anal... Read More about Obstruction.