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Making volunteering with refugees governable: the contested role of "Civil society" in the German welcome culture
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Abstract This article investigates the manifold attempts of governmental actors to make volunteering with refugees governable in light of the so-called German Welcome Culture in 2015. Driven by the notion of a need to interfere, authorities introduced numerous programmes and efforts seeking to order, coordin... view more
This article investigates the manifold attempts of governmental actors to make volunteering with refugees governable in light of the so-called German Welcome Culture in 2015. Driven by the notion of a need to interfere, authorities introduced numerous programmes and efforts seeking to order, coordinate, influence, and enhance volunteering with refugees in order to make it more "effective". This investigation will suggest reading these interventions as attempts to (re)gain control and power over the conduct of committed citizens, making them complicit in the governance of asylum seekers, while co-opting potentially dissenting behaviour amongst them. Yet, it will also reveal how certain volunteers proved to contest their ascribed roles and responsibilities, demanding space for disagreement. Volunteering with refugees thus also constantly exceeded and defied governmental control and interference - and thereby remained, at least to a certain extent, ungovernable.... view less
Keywords
Europe; refugee; Federal Republic of Germany; political culture; solidarity; civil society; volunteerism; humanitarianism; crisis; national state; control
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social Work, Social Pedagogics, Social Planning
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
European refugee crisis; Germany; Welcome Culture; civic solidarity; civil society; governance; humanitarianism; refugees; volunteering
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 64-73
Journal
Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 2
Issue topic
The European refugee controversy: civil solidarity, cultural imaginaries and political change
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed