A critical ethics of care perspective on refugee income generation : towards sustainable policy and practice in Zimbabwe’s Tongogara camp

dc.contributor.authorTaruvinga, Raymond
dc.contributor.authorHolscher, Dorothee
dc.contributor.authorLombard, A. (Antoinette)
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-24T09:54:04Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article critiques Zimbabwe's refugee policy and practice context, with a focus on the ideological underpinnings of aided income generation activities in Zimbabwe's Tongogara refugee camp. We apply the lenses of Joan Tronto's political, or democratic ethics of care, and Fiona Robinson's critical ethics of care, to conduct an ideology critique of the aid agencies' expressed goal of refugees' economic ‘self-reliance’. We demonstrate that their underlying assumptions about ‘dependency’ and ‘autonomy’, in conjunction with Zimbabwe's policy of refugee encampment, are at the heart of the income generation activities’ lack of sustainability. We argue further that all caring relationships are characterised by unequal power relations, and that this needs to be acknowledged in order to enable a shared commitment to equal participation, in a partnership towards agreed-upon development goals. Moreover, the ideologies of autonomy and self-reliance must be replaced with a policy commitment to fostering interdependence as the ontological condition under which income generating activities can evolve into sustainable livelihoods. We recommend that the critical ethics of care and the radical-democratic practices for which it calls, provide an apt framework within which to reconsider the policies governing refugee support and practices, so as to foster a caring context for human wellbeing.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentSocial Work and Criminologyen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2022-02-10
dc.description.librarianhj2021en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/resw20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRaymond Taruvinga, Dorothee Hölscher & Antoinette Lombard (2021) A Critical Ethics of Care Perspective on Refugee Income Generation: Towards Sustainable Policy and Practice in Zimbabwe’s Tongogara Camp, Ethics and Social Welfare, 15:1, 36-51, DOI:10.1080/17496535.2021.1877766.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1749-6535 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1749-6543 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/17496535.2021.1877766
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/80016
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in Ethics and Social Welfare, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 36-51, 2021. doi : 10.1080/17496535.2021.1877766. Ethics and Social Welfare is available online at : https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/resw20.en_ZA
dc.subjectEthics of careen_ZA
dc.subjectRefugee policyen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectPoverty alleviationen_ZA
dc.titleA critical ethics of care perspective on refugee income generation : towards sustainable policy and practice in Zimbabwe’s Tongogara campen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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