Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

3-8394-5437-9

1 online resource (274 p.)

Kultur und soziale Praxis

320

Refugees; Solidarity; Volunteering; Humanitarianism; Political Activism; Fleeing; Civil Society; Politics; Refugee Studies; Migration; Migration Policy; Social Movements

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Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  1.1. The Spirit of Summer 2015: "We Want to Help Refugees!"    9  1.2. The Political Ambivalences of Refugee Support    16  1.3. Conceptualizing Solidarity in Migration Societies    23  1.4. The Political Possibilities of Grassroots Humanitarianism    30  1.5. Rethinking Political Action in Migration Societies    36  1.6. Researching Solidarity in the German 'Summer of Welcome': Field, Access, Methods, Ethics    40  1.7. An Outline of Contested Solidarity    46  2.1. The Notion of a 'Welcome Culture' and its Mobilizing Effects    51  2.2. Humanitarian Dissent: The Solidarity March 'Ellwangen Shows its Colours'    55  2.3. Humanitarian Governance: Volunteering with Refugees in Ellwangen    71  2.4. Concluding Remarks: Practices of Solidarity between Dissent and Co-Optation    83  3.1. Governmental Interventions in the Conduct of Volunteering with Refugees    85  3.2. (Re)Ordering Responsibilities in the Reception of Asylum Seekers    88  3.3. (Re)Shaping the Self-Conduct of Committed Citizens    100  3.4. Depoliticizing "Uncomfortable" Practices of Refugee Support    112  3.5. Concluding Remarks: The Government of Refugee Solidarity    119  4.1. "We are also Political Volunteers!"    121  4.2. Politics of Presence: Enacting Alternative Visions of Society    125  4.3. Contestations around Equal Rights    131  4.4. Contestations around a Right to Stay    139  4.5. Contestations around a Right to Migrate    147  4.6. Concluding

Remarks: Emerging Meanings of Political Action in Migration Societies    152  5.1. Insubordinate Recipients: Asylum Seekers' Interventions in Relationships of Solidarity    155  5.2. The Intermediated Agency of Asylum Seekers    158  5.3. (De)politicizing the Meanings of Food: The Intermediation of Migrant Protest in Bad Waldsee    161  5.4. Deterring 'Economic Migrants': The Intermediation of Migrant Protest in Offenburg    176  5.5. Concluding Remarks: The Agency of Asylum Seekers in the Contestation of Solidarity    189  6.1. At the Frontlines of Solidarity and Community    193  6.2. A Short History of Refugee Activism in Schwäbisch Gmünd    197  6.3. The Breaking of Relationships of Solidarity    201  6.4. The Conflicting Imaginaries of Community    214  6.5. Concluding Remarks: The Intimate Relationship between Community and Solidarity    226  Introduction    229  7.1. The Contested Line between Insiders and Outsiders    230  7.2. The Contested Line between 'the State' and 'Civil Society'    233  7.3. The Contested Relationship between 'the Local' and 'the World Out There'    236  References    241  Acknowledgements    271

In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents felt an urge to provide help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not as simple and straightforward as it might appear. Practices of solidarity are intertwined with questions of power. They are situated, relative and contested, unfolding in an ambivalent space between humanitarianism and political activism. This ethnographic account of the German »welcome culture« provides insights into the contested practices, imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity. Drawing on works from critical migration studies to social anthropology, Larissa Fleischmann develops an empirically grounded understanding of solidarity in migration societies.

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