The Welcomers: How volunteers frame their commitment for refugees
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Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe. Hrsg. / Margit Feischmidt; Ludger Pries; Celine Cantat. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. S. 221-241.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Welcomers
T2 - How volunteers frame their commitment for refugees
AU - Karakayali, Serhat
PY - 2018/10/18
Y1 - 2018/10/18
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Sociology
KW - Germany
KW - Hegemony
KW - Volunteers
KW - Social movements
KW - political mobilization
KW - Right wing extremism
KW - left wing commitment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063633000&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-92741-1_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-92741-1_8
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:85063633000
SN - 978-3-319-92740-4
SN - 978-3-030-06505-8
SP - 221
EP - 241
BT - Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe
A2 - Feischmidt, Margit
A2 - Pries, Ludger
A2 - Cantat, Celine
PB - Springer International Publishing
CY - Cham
ER -