Despite increasing interest in the role played by global South receiving organizations of development volunteers, their agency and efforts are rarely investigated in detail. Our qualitative study explores the involvement of receiving partners in international volunteering spaces, using the German Weltwärts programme in Mexico as an example. By applying decolonial theory, and politics and ethics of care lens to our data, we explore how these organizations are ‘weaving’ a dense assistance and safety web around the volunteers. Such assistance is usually not monetized and mainly invisible in the discussion of volunteering for development. Our findings challenge the development discourse and the positionality of northern volunteers within the development architecture.

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编织一个密集的网络：对墨西哥哈利斯科州发展志愿者东道组织的贡献的（非殖民性）研究

尽管人们对南半球接收发展志愿者组织所发挥的作用越来越感兴趣，但他们的机构和努力却很少被详细调查。我们的定性研究以墨西哥的德国 Weltwärts 项目为例，探讨了接收伙伴参与国际志愿服务空间的情况。通过将非殖民理论、护理视角的政治和伦理应用于我们的数据，我们探索这些组织如何围绕志愿者“编织”一个密集的援助和安全网络。这种援助通常不会货币化，而且在志愿服务促进发展的讨论中主要是不可见的。我们的研究结果对发展话语和北方志愿者在发展架构中的地位提出了挑战。