ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the implications of the entrenchment of the Duty of Care (DoC) within the humanitarian sector. It analyses the DoC and academic researchers from a governmentality perspective. The book provides two conceptual innovations for better understanding the DoC. The first is to position DoC responsibilities in relation to other governing logics that establish the political context within which contestation takes place. The second is to show that in establishing ‘the limits to duty of care from the outside’, their extension can come from the invocation of communitarian rights claims as opposed to cosmopolitan notions of shared belonging. The book also provides an example of how the potential dislocations between state membership and national identity play out through the DoC, particularly in relation to when and how states choose to intervene on behalf of diaspora members and for what specific purposes.
