Migration and Aid: As local as possible, as international as necessary
About this episode
The episode discusses the localisation of humanitarian aid and its impact on migration dynamics and community empowerment.
How empowering is humanitarian aid in the 21st century? We welcome an expert panel to discuss past and present localisation efforts, and how they affect migration dynamics and community building. What does the future of humanitarian aid look like in the 21st century? How empowering can humanitarian efforts be for the individuals and communities they serve? And is it possible for this work to advance decolonisation in the migration-development sector? In this episode, recorded in early 2025, we spoke with Danilo Angulo-Molina, MSc alumni in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford, and Ruta Nimkar, Co-Founder of Meraki Labs and DPhil candidate in Migration Studies at COMPAS, about the idea of the localisation of aid and how it contrasts with the image of large international organisations. How does the principle of localisation work in practice? What is the Grand Bargain, and why is it significant in shaping discussions about cross-border migration? We draw on several project at COMPAS and the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development, including the MIGNEX project that examined the role of aid in migration decision making and found it to be…
People in this episode
Guests: Danilo Angulo-Molina, Ruta Nimkar
Topics covered
- humanitarian aid
- localisation of aid
- migration dynamics
- community building
- decolonisation
- cross-border migration
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Oxford, Meraki Labs, COMPAS
Places: Colombia, Iran, Somalia, South Sudan
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