Contested Solidarity
Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
1. INTRODUCTION: The Contested Solidarities of the German 'Welcome Culture'
1.1. The Spirit of Summer 2015: "We Want to Help Refugees!"
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1.2. The Political Ambivalences of Refugee Support
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1.3. Conceptualizing Solidarity in Migration Societies
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1.4. The Political Possibilities of Grassroots Humanitarianism
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1.5. Rethinking Political Action in Migration Societies
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1.6. Researching Solidarity in the German 'Summer of Welcome': Field, Access, Methods, Ethics
Seiten 40 - 46 -
1.7. An Outline of Contested Solidarity
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2. MOBILIZING SOLIDARITY: Building Local 'Welcome Culture' through a Moral Imperative to Act
2.1. The Notion of a 'Welcome Culture' and its Mobilizing Effects
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2.2. Humanitarian Dissent: The Solidarity March 'Ellwangen Shows its Colours'
Seiten 55 - 71 -
2.3. Humanitarian Governance: Volunteering with Refugees in Ellwangen
Seiten 71 - 83 -
2.4. Concluding Remarks: Practices of Solidarity between Dissent and Co-Optation
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3. GOVERNING SOLIDARITY: Volunteering with Refugees as a Field of Governmental Intervention
3.1. Governmental Interventions in the Conduct of Volunteering with Refugees
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3.2. (Re)Ordering Responsibilities in the Reception of Asylum Seekers
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3.3. (Re)Shaping the Self-Conduct of Committed Citizens
Seiten 100 - 112 -
3.4. Depoliticizing "Uncomfortable" Practices of Refugee Support
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3.5. Concluding Remarks: The Government of Refugee Solidarity
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4. POLITICIZING SOLIDARITY: The Contested Political Meanings and Effects of Refugee Support
4.1. "We are also Political Volunteers!"
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4.2. Politics of Presence: Enacting Alternative Visions of Society
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4.3. Contestations around Equal Rights
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4.4. Contestations around a Right to Stay
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4.5. Contestations around a Right to Migrate
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4.6. Concluding Remarks: Emerging Meanings of Political Action in Migration Societies
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5. RECASTING SOLIDARITY: The Political Agency of Asylum Seekers in Relationships of Solidarity
5.1. Insubordinate Recipients: Asylum Seekers' Interventions in Relationships of Solidarity
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5.2. The Intermediated Agency of Asylum Seekers
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5.3. (De)politicizing the Meanings of Food: The Intermediation of Migrant Protest in Bad Waldsee
Seiten 161 - 175 -
5.4. Deterring 'Economic Migrants': The Intermediation of Migrant Protest in Offenburg
Seiten 176 - 189 -
5.5. Concluding Remarks: The Agency of Asylum Seekers in the Contestation of Solidarity
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6. BREAKING SOLIDARITY: Refugee Activism as a Conflicting Imaginary of Solidarity and Community
6.1. At the Frontlines of Solidarity and Community
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6.2. A Short History of Refugee Activism in Schwäbisch Gmünd
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6.3. The Breaking of Relationships of Solidarity
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6.4. The Conflicting Imaginaries of Community
Seiten 214 - 225 -
6.5. Concluding Remarks: The Intimate Relationship between Community and Solidarity
Seiten 226 - 228 -
7. WORDS IN CONCLUSION: Lines of Contestation in Contemporary Migration Societies
Introduction
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7.1. The Contested Line between Insiders and Outsiders
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7.2. The Contested Line between 'the State' and 'Civil Society'
Seiten 233 - 236 -
7.3. The Contested Relationship between 'the Local' and 'the World Out There'
Seiten 236 - 240 -
References
Seiten 241 - 270 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 271 - 274
13. November 2020, 274 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5437-0
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