Contested Solidarity Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Bielefeld transcript Verlag transcript Verlag [Imprint] 2020Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (274 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 5 Interest qualifiers
- 5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
- 5PB Relating to peoples
- 5PBC Relating to migrant groups
- Civil Society
- Fleeing
- Humanitarianism
- J Society and Social Sciences
- JB Society and culture
- JBF Social and ethical issues
- JBFG Refugees and political asylum
- JBFH Migration
- JP Politics and government
- JPQ Central
- JPQB Central
- Migration
- Migration Policy
- Political Activism
- Politics
- Refugee Studies
- Refugees
- Social Movements
- Solidarity
- Volunteering
- cultures and other groupings of people
- diaspora communities or peoples
- ethnic groups
- federal government
- federal government policies
- general
- immigration and emigration
- indigenous peoples
- national
- thema EDItEUR
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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.
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