Contested Solidarity Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and

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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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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.

Author Biography

Larissa Fleischmann, born in 1989, works as a postdoctoral researcher in Human Geography at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She received her PhD from the University of Konstanz, where she was a member of the Centre of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Social Integration" and the working group in Social and Cultural Anthropology from 2014 to 2018.

Table of Contents

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 Schw

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Besprochen in:https://forced-migration-information.blogspot.com, 12 (2020)InfoDienst Migration, 1 (2021)

Details ISBN3837654370 Author Larissa Fleischmann Pages 274 ISBN-10 3837654370 ISBN-13 9783837654370 Series Culture and Social Practice Language English Format Paperback Publisher Transcript Verlag UK Release Date 2020-11-15 Country of Publication Germany Imprint Transcript Verlag Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-12-01 DEWEY 325.43 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9783839454374 We've got this

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