...Joel Beinin Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil society, often reduced to the presence of NGOs, is the essential ingredient of democracy. Although the concept of civil society is imprecisely and ubiquitously deployed, rendering it of dubious...

...Ralph Litzinger This essay introduces recent efforts by activists, NGOs, and academics to investigate and report on the working conditions for Chinese workers along Apple’s supply chain in China. Tracking the “suicide express” at the Foxconn factory complex in Shenzhen in 2010, the work of the Hong...

... that support their daily survival. To open space for maneuver within nation-state borders, runaway migrant workers utilize their agency and negotiate state and nonstate structures such as recruitment companies, NGOs and civil society organizations, migrant communities, illegal agency services, and taxi drivers...

...Arnab Roy Chowdhury In Myanmar, the Citizenship Law of 1982 made the Rohingya “stateless.” The Rohingya consider Bangladesh a haven and take to the sea on rickety boats to cross borders. If they do, however, they become “illegal migrants.” Considering such laws unjust, local and international NGOs...

... legitimizing the inexorably paternalistic work of NGOs, funding streams, and rhetoric. To critique such a perspective, the author makes two counterpoints. On the one hand, she seeks to counter the figure of trafficking with that of the autonomy of migration, understanding autonomy from a point of view...

.... In this context, humanitarian actors, international organizations, and NGOs have enhanced their roles in the EU border regime and have become a substantive element of migration management to such an extent that we can speak of an NGOization of migration policies. The squatting of City Plaza Hotel in Athens...

... leaders and the nonprofit organizations that constitute it are unable to deny that many of them do, in some sense, ‘‘profit’’ from the publicity generated by their movement. Many do indeed fund their projects by writing grants (i.e., selling their causes) to an international public (including other NGOs...

... . Prologue to La Pobreza, un gran negocio: Un análisis crítico sobre oeneges, microfinancieras y banca (Poverty, A Great Business: A Critical Analysis of NGOs, Microfinance Institutions, and Banks) , by Ibañez Graciela Toro , 1 – 10 . La Paz, Bolivia : Mujeres Creando . Galindo Maria...

.... However, the fight for democ- racy and social justice still remains the primary condition for its success. In this arena, though, the role of international institutions and NGOs is also ambiguous. The United Nations, for example, declared the period of 1997 to 2006 to be ‘‘the decade...

... been conducted by research- ers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved in the judicial support of Palestinians applying for permits (Berda 2012; Lein 2005; Etkes 2011; Gisha 2012; Cahana...

...- bers who migrated to the United States to work since the late 1970s. One way of capturing remittances and producing credit is through the emergence of the REFICOM that, in the form of an NGO, operates like a swarm of small units of credit and savings deposits in some communi- ties...

... and the Italian government’s attacks against humanitarian organizations. A G A I N S T the D A Y Luca Casarini Death and Life at Sea One day in July 2018, like in a typical movie scene of Italian immigrants abroad looking for work, two of us knocked on the door of the small Berlin headquarters of the German NGO...

..., A. Mendes • Between Shocks and Finance  869 with a negative impact on the territory. Capital must flow to produce a “pub- lic sphere” and the inclusion of a new civil society. Therefore, old NGOs are seen as something like the ancient “guilds” criticized by Adam Smith in the emergence of classical...

... contracted by Doctors Without Bor- ders and SOS Méditerranée, with more than six hundred migrants on board. This was the culmination of a violent campaign over the previous year that the Italian government had been waging against humanitarian NGOs con- ducting monitoring and rescue of migrants in distress...

...). I struggled with determining what I can do and what I should refrain from doing. While I wanted to help, I did not want to raise false expectations as some journalists, researchers, nongovernmental (NGO) workers, and officials had done. Also, it was easier for me to help in certain situations rather...

...) . Nixon Rob . 2011 . Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Salvador Richard . 2002 . “NGO Presentation to the NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee, New York, April 2002: Indigenous Perspective.” Reaching Critical...

... UN agencies (e.g., Unctad, Unicef, Unifem, Unrisd); some international NGOs (e.g., Care, Civicus, IUCN, Oxfam, TI); large environmental groups (e.g., Sierra Club and WWF); big labor (e.g., ICFTU and AFL-CIO); liberal founda- tions (e.g., Carnegie, Ford, MacArthur, Mott, Open Society, Rockefeller...

... corporations provide exemplars of a certain form of cosmopolitan- ism, though not of democracy. Likewise, a large proportion of global civil society—from the World Bank to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) setting accountancy standards—exists to support capitalism not pursue democracy. Even the ideas...

... The Mediterranean Sea is closing down. Once again, Europe has managed to outsource the task of border control, and the human rights violations that always accompany it, to its neighbors. The few NGOs that still strive to con- duct search-and-rescue operations are criminalized and the precarious pas- sengers...

... the scholarly world insists on these distinctions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and activists use the two interchangeably. In this article, native is a more neutral, static term that de nes location and attachment, almost an ecologi- cal statement, of a group or a society. Indigenous...