Humanitarian Work Psychology: Research with Underrepresented and Forgotten Populations

Abstract

The name Humanitarian Work Psychology denotes harmonization with successive United Nations goals to tackle poverty. These encompass universally inclusive access to decent work, aligning research with serving underrepresented, forgotten populations. Since 2000, research with humanitarian aid workers from and serving poverty- and other disaster-affected populations first improved aid work conditions, boosting aid and later welfare services. When working poverty globalized, a more extensive quantum supported making work in general more inclusive by backing enterprise capabilities and skills, among microentrepreneurs in the majority informal economy or carried by dislocated/relocating immigrant groups, and by theorizing fair-pay evaluation across minimum-, living- and maximum-waged groups, up and down the formal economy. Today these two groups are combining to reconceptualize structural elements of decent work into functional Sustainable Livelihoods. Essential for inclusive, just transitions during climate action, they function to weather poly-crises and sustain livelihoods for others—especially future generations.