TY - JOUR AU - Hoffmann, Sophia PY - 2012/11/08 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Humanitarian Regime of Sovereignty: INGOs and Iraqi Migration to Syria JF - Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees JA - Refuge VL - 28 IS - 1 SE - Feature Articles DO - 10.25071/1920-7336.36089 UR - https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/36089 SP - 59-70 AB - <p>This article considers the activities of international,&nbsp;humanitarian NGOs in Syria focused on Iraqi migrants. The analysis questions how these INGOs were positioned&nbsp;towards modern state sovereignty, and sovereignty’s particular constructions of territory, population, and government. Arguing that most INGOs operated firmly within the&nbsp;social relations stipulated by modern sovereignty, the article uses rich ethnographic data to demonstrate how INGO&nbsp;activities treated Iraqis according to sovereign exclusions&nbsp;and ideas about citizenship, even though Iraqi life in Syria&nbsp;visibly contradicted these ideas. Only smaller, amateur&nbsp;INGOs that stood outside of the professional humanitarian&nbsp;sector were found to work outside of sovereignty’s norms.</p> ER -