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Demand and Deliver: Refugee Support Organisations in Austria
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Abstract This article analyses four emerging refugee support organisations in Austria, founded before the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. It argues that these organisations have managed to occupy a middle space between mainstream NGOs and social movements with structures of inclusive governance, a high deg... mehr
This article analyses four emerging refugee support organisations in Austria, founded before the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. It argues that these organisations have managed to occupy a middle space between mainstream NGOs and social movements with structures of inclusive governance, a high degree of autonomy, personalised relationships with refugees, and radical critique combined with service delivery. Based on interviews with the founders of each organisation, we show that their previous NGO and social movement experience formed a springboard for the new initiatives. It not only allowed them to identify significant gaps in existing service provision, but also provided the space of confrontation with the asylum system inspiring a strong sense of outrage, which in turn developed into political critique. We argue that this critique combined with identifying the needs of asylum seekers and refugees has produced a new type of organisation, which both delivers services and articulates radical demands. Each organisation offers a space of encounter, which undoes the ‘organised disintegration’ of the asylum system.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
bürgerschaftliches Engagement; Flüchtling; soziale Bewegung; Asylbewerber; Österreich; Governance; soziale Unterstützung; Organisationsstruktur; nichtstaatliche Organisation; Zivilgesellschaft; Migrationspolitik
Klassifikation
Migration
Organisationssoziologie, Militärsoziologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 28-37
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 5 (2017) 3
Heftthema
Perspectives on the European Border Regime: Mobilization, Contestation, and the Role of Civil Society
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)