Humanitarian Aid and Wandering Peoples: Chronicle of Parallel Evolution, 2018

15/11/2018

The issue of population movements does not arise with the tragedy of refugees in the Mediterranean. And it only becomes a "migrant crisis" when the combination of conflict, disaster and poverty meets the imperialism of Western nations. In a historical and semantic perspective, François Grünewald reminds us that, since their birth, humanitarian workers have never ceased to stand by these "damned of the earth".