- Title
- Humanitarian logistics research for the care of refugees and internally displaced persons: a new area of research and a research agenda
- Creator
- Oloruntoba, Richard; Banomyong, Ruth
- Relation
- Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Vol. 8, Issue 3, p. 282-294
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JHLSCM-02-2018-0015
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- This “thought paper” is written by the special issue editors as a part of the five papers accepted and published in response to the special issue call for papers on logistics and SCM in the context of relief for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “refugee logistics” and analyse the nature and challenges of displacement from a displaced person’s perspective. The paper also argues for a more critical appreciation of the role and value that research in logistics, operations and supply chain management (LOSCM) can play in the delivery of services and care for refugees and IDPs from the perspective of preparedness and logistics planning of humanitarian organisations. The paper further outlines basic challenges to undertaking innovative, boundary pushing valuable and impactful research on “refugee logistics” given the difficult ideological, political and policy context in which “refugee logistics research” will be undertaken. The paper also advocates for more critical research in humanitarian logistics (HL), that explicitly acknowledges its ontological, epistemological and methodological limitations even when ethically sound. The paper concludes by suggesting a future research agenda for this new sub-field of humanitarian logistics research.
- Subject
- humanitarian logistics; disaster relief operations; humanitarian supply chain; humanitarian operations; not-for-profit supply chain; refugees and internally displaced persons; SDG 10; SDG 16; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1466807
- Identifier
- uon:47668
- Identifier
- ISSN:2042-6747
- Language
- eng
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