Local aid workers in the digital humanitarian project: Between “second class citizens” and “entrepreneurial survivors”

• Main Authors: Ong, Jonathan Corpus, Combinido, Pamela
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Humanitarian aid workers > Philippines > Social conditions; International and Intercultural Communication; Social Welfare
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1528; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/2527/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper examines the experiences of Filipino workers recruited for technology and communications work by international aid agencies involved in the Typhoon Haiyan response. Filipino workers, many of whom were personally coping with the social and economic impact of this disaster, were hired on sh...