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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... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Europa; Flüchtling; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; politische Kultur; Solidarität; Zivilgesellschaft; Freiwilligenarbeit; Humanität; Krise; Staat; Kontrolle
Klassifikation
Migration
Sozialwesen, Sozialplanung, Sozialarbeit, Sozialpädagogik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
European refugee crisis; Germany; Welcome Culture; civic solidarity; civil society; governance; humanitarianism; refugees; volunteering
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 64-73
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 2
Heftthema
The European refugee controversy: civil solidarity, cultural imaginaries and political change
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)