This chapter is based on a research project aimed at giving a voice to “facilitating researchers” in the global South and outlining their crucial role in knowledge production. The author sheds light on the inequalities between Northern-based “contracting researchers” and Southern-based “facilitating researchers”, including poor remuneration, dangerous working conditions, and denied authorship. She then critically discusses in which ways and why even critical scholars in the Global North are complicit in reproducing these hierarchies and points toward possible pathways for change.