Humanitarians on the move

At the turn of the century, the globalized economy, the weight of international agencies and transnational migrations have increased the demand for multilingual competences in the workplace. In particular, humanitarian agencies must recruit and train mobile and multilingual skilled workers to deploy their humanitarian missions. Departing from a critical ethnographic and historiographic perspective, this research project explores the recruitment, training and mentoring of delegates at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who cross linguistic and national borders.