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Translocal disaster interventions: The role of individual relief channels in Philippine disasters
Author(s) -
Dalgas Karina
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5973.12204
Subject(s) - equity (law) , emergency management , archipelago , psychological intervention , ethnography , political science , sociology , criminology , development economics , economic growth , geography , law , economics , psychology , archaeology , psychiatry , anthropology
The disaster‐prone Philippine archipelago is a major sender of migrants worldwide. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Philippines and Denmark, this article investigates how individual migrants channelled relief to their neighbourhoods of origin after the Bohol earthquake of 2013. I argue that such individual relief channels both complement and conflict with official disaster responses because they form part of local collective coping mechanisms in a way that contradict equity as a principle of distributive justice, and, on the level of practical implementation, poses challenges to aspirations to distribute relief equally. Drawing attention to the practice of excluding the migrants’ households of origin from receiving targeted aid, the article suggests that disaster management should reconsider how remittances flow in disasters.