“Where is home?”—“Doctors Without Borders”, doctors without a homeland?
Authors: Ludovic Joxe
Are “Doctors Without Borders” (MSF) doctors without a homeland? Based on fifty interviews, statistical data and a participatory observation, this articledescribes humanitarian mission conditions limiting local integration and suggests three forms of attachment: home (“break expatriates”), elsewhere (“multi‑homeland expatriates”) or nowhere (“duty‑free expatriates”). For the latter, MSF plays, until their departure from the organization, the role of substitute homeland.
Keywords: sociology,expatriation,MSF,family,identity,homeland,mission,humanitarianism,sociología,expatriación,MSF,familia,identidad,patria,misión,ayuda humanitaria,sociologie,expatriation,MSF,famille,identité,patrie,mission,humanitaire,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences