Solidarity with refugees: negotiations of proximity and memory
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Refugees welcome?: difference and diversity in a changing Germany. ed. / Jan-Jonathan Bock; Sharon Macdonald. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. p. 191-213.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Solidarity with refugees
T2 - negotiations of proximity and memory
AU - Karakayalı, Serhat
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This chapter explores the emergence of a particularly welcoming societal stance and atmosphere towards asylum seekers and refugees in Germany.¹ In German, this significant cultural shift has been labelled Willkommenskultur – or ‘a culture of welcome/hospitality’ – an attitude that started to emerge noticeably in 2011 and reached its peak in the summer of 2015, when hundreds of thousands of Germans joined voluntary associations and groups to support large numbers of refugees arriving in the country, predominantly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, around 10 per cent of Germany’s adult population joined such initiatives or projects aimed at helping refugees in...
AB - This chapter explores the emergence of a particularly welcoming societal stance and atmosphere towards asylum seekers and refugees in Germany.¹ In German, this significant cultural shift has been labelled Willkommenskultur – or ‘a culture of welcome/hospitality’ – an attitude that started to emerge noticeably in 2011 and reached its peak in the summer of 2015, when hundreds of thousands of Germans joined voluntary associations and groups to support large numbers of refugees arriving in the country, predominantly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, around 10 per cent of Germany’s adult population joined such initiatives or projects aimed at helping refugees in...
KW - Sociology
U2 - 10.2307/j.ctv12pns28.13
DO - 10.2307/j.ctv12pns28.13
M3 - Chapter
SN - 1-78920-128-4
SN - 978-1-78920-128-4
SP - 191
EP - 213
BT - Refugees welcome?
A2 - Bock, Jan-Jonathan
A2 - Macdonald, Sharon
PB - Berghahn Books
CY - New York
ER -