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Library of Congress genre(s)

• Informational works

FaST Subject(s)

• Germany
• Informational works

Series

• Kultur und Soziale Praxis [More in this series]
• Kultur und soziale Praxis

Biographical/​Historical note

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.

Summary note

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

Dissertation note

Doctoral Thesis Universität Konstanz 2018

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

Rights and reproductions note

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license:

Language note

In English.

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 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

ISBN

• 9783839454374
• 3839454379

OCLC

• 1224278175
• 1291316800

Doi

• 10.14361/9783839454374

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