The Welcomers: How volunteers frame their commitment for refugees

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In Germany, the refugee crisis of 2015 mobilized millions of German citizens to volunteer for refugees. Overnight, a broad movement, different from previous forms of solidarity activism, emerged. Its focus on humanitarian help, integration measures and its lack of ideological coherence suggest that is not a social movement in the conventional sense. The paper argues, however, that this new volunteerism for refugees is a political movement of a different kind, as an analysis of survey data, semi-narrative interviews and group discussions with volunteers reveals. For the majority of volunteers, helping refugees is a symbolic form of political articulation, particularly against mobilization efforts from right wing extremists on the local level.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelRefugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe
HerausgeberMargit Feischmidt, Ludger Pries, Celine Cantat
Anzahl der Seiten21
ErscheinungsortCham
VerlagSpringer International Publishing AG
Erscheinungsdatum18.10.2018
Seiten221-241
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-92740-4, 978-3-030-06505-8
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-319-92741-1
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 18.10.2018
Extern publiziertJa

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