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ID69071
NAMEE Steinhilper
GIVEN NAMESE
FAMILY NAMESteinhilper
SIGNATURESTEINHILPER E
AFFILIATIONSGerman Center for Integration and Migration Research
ORCID0000-0003-4821-5724
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS195
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8
  • From outrage to action: Explaining mass mobilization against the far right in Germany

    Open Access•Sebastian Koo, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2026

    In early 2024, revelations concerning a meeting of far-right actors to discuss large-scale deportations triggered one of the largest waves of protest in modern German history. What brought people into the streets was not outrage at these plans alone, but also a deeper anxiety about the trajectory of liberal democracy, intensified by the growing strength of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Against this backdrop, the present article draws on …

  • Selective solidarity? Patterns of support for refugees in Germany

    Theresa Uhr, Marina Seddig et al.•ARTICLE•Politics Groups and Identities•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 3

  • Against the Odds: On the Arduous Production of Linking Social Capital in Local Refugee Reception

    Open Access•Clara Van Den Berg, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•Administration & Society•2025•References: 51

    This article scrutinizes linking social capital formation between informal civil society and local administrations during and after the 2015 European refugee reception crisis. Drawing from 61 semi-structured interviews with members of civil society organizations and local administrations in two German cities, this study documents that the production of linking social capital is by no means guaranteed. Structural power asymmetries and different lo…

  • Papea: A modular pipeline for the automation of protest event analysis

    Open Access•Sebastian Haun, Priska Daphi et al.•ARTICLE•Political Science Research and…•2025•References: 36

    Protest event analysis (PEA) is the core method to understand spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of protest. We show how Large Language Models (LLM) can be used to automate the classification of protest events and of political event data more broadly with levels of accuracy comparable to humans, while reducing necessary annotation time by several orders of magnitude. We propose a modular pipeline for the automation of PEA (PAPEA) based on fin…

  • Fields of contention as a prism: Toward a Nuanced Role of Parties and Civil Society Actors in Protest Interactions

    Matthias Hoffmann, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 36

    By adopting a theory-oriented case study approach, this article complements recent debates in political sociology on movement-party interactions, parties and protest, and ‘movement parties’ by proposing a relational perspective to the study of fields of contention. We explore how organizational type, as a political party or civil society organization, and political orientation on the left-to-right spectrum affect actors’ roles in local fields of …

  • Politicized Volunteers? Hybridity and Change in Refugee Support in Germany

    Marina Seddig, Fabio Best et al.•ARTICLE•Soziale Welt•2025

    Building upon recent debates on the (a)political qualities of refugee support, this article draws from a quantitative survey among refugee supporters in Germany (n=2000) to assess the prevalence of political motivations and practices, the existence of a distinct "political" type of refugee supporters and potential dynamics of politicization during engagement. Our data document a) a diverse field of action with widespread political and non-politic…

  • On the limits of antiracism: How antiracist opposition is connected to racism denial in Germany

    Open Access•Tae Jun Kim, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2025•Cited by: 3•References: 18

  • Antirassismus in Deutschland – soziale Bewegung und staatliche Politik

    E Steinhilper, Tae Jun Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2024

  • Wer setzt sich in Deutschland gegen Rassismus ein? Antirassistischer Protest im Spiegel repräsentativer Daten

    Tae Jun Kim, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2024

    Antirassistischer Protest hat in Deutschland zuletzt deutlich an Sichtbarkeit gewonnen. Aufgrund mangelnder Daten sind allerdings einige grundlegende Fragen ungeklärt, darunter: Wie groß ist das Mobilisierungspotenzial für antirassistischen Protest und welche sozialen, psychologischen und politischen Faktoren erklären Protestpotenzial und -praxis? In diesem Beitrag greifen wir auf empirische Daten zurück, die im Rahmen einer repräsentativen Panel…

  • Relational Sediments in the Backwash of Protest Waves: Exploring Network Consequences of Collective Action

    E Steinhilper, Matthias Hoffmann•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2024

    This article addresses the puzzling relational void in the analysis of collective action consequences by exploring how protest waves affect local network structures in two German towns. We compare three periods of time: a preprotest wave latency period, a protest wave period, and a postwave latency period, as defined in relation to contentious collective action around the refugee reception crisis in 2015. Adopting a field perspective, our analysi…

  • Antiracist protest in Germany: (Mediated) Racism Experiences and Emotions as Drivers of Mobilization

    Open Access•E Steinhilper, Stefanie Hechler et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 45

    While antiracist protest has gained increasing prominence in Europe in recent years, the lack of representative data has so far prevented an assessment of the scope and drivers of antiracist protest outside of the United States. This paper addresses this gap drawing from a unique survey (N = 5003) on racism in Germany. Building upon sociological and social psychological theories of protest, the article explores the scope and role of key demograph…

  • Agenda setting and selective resonance – Black Lives Matter and media debates on racism in Germany

    Sabrina Zajak, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural and…•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    In this article, we explore how the 2020 wave of BLM mobilisations has impacted the media debates on racism in Germany. We analyse overall shifts in the salience of racism and the resonance of key frames articulated by BLM protesters. Drawing from a mix of quantitative content analysis and semi-structured interviews, we find evidence that the BLM protests have changed the public debate on racism in Germany through agenda setting and reframing. Fi…

  • Patterns of adaptation and recontextualisation: The transnational diffusion of Black Lives Matter to Italy and Germany

    Donatella Della Porta, Anna Lavizzari et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural and…•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 6

    Following the killing of George Floyd on 25 May 2020, a wave of ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) protests swept the globe, including most European countries. In this article, we provide a detailed comparative empirical account of the transnational diffusion of BLM protests from the USA to Italy and Germany. Shedding light on BLM mobilisations outside the USA, we complement theoretical reflections on protest diffusion by inquiring how the interplay of p…

  • Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones

    Open Access•P Monforte, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    Borders as legal, social, and material aspaces of inclusion/exclusion constantly spark resistance, by both migrants and solidarity actors. In this article, we combine the dual observation of a proliferation of border control policies and of migrant and solidarity activism to analyse how different types of border control policies affect the forms of resistance that emerge in them. We inquire on three different cases: first the Calais region at the…

  • Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation: Protest for an Open Society in Germany

    Katarina Stjepandić, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•German Politics•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    This article analyses the 'Unteilbar coalition for an open and plural society' in Germany, as an emblematic case to advance scholarship on cross-movement coalition-building and intersectionality in social movement studies. We argue that migration-related polarisation and an accentuated threat of rising far-right mobilisation has provided a context for progressive social movement organisations in Germany to converge and to engage in a particular k…

  • Gespaltene Gesellschaft? Politische Polarisierung: Zustand, Debatten, Folgen

    Jochen Roose, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2022

  • Politische Polarisierung: Zur Systematisierung eines vielschichtigen Konzepts

    Jochen Roose, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2022

    Debatten um gesellschaftliche Spaltung haben derzeit Konjunktur. Allerdings bleibt oft unscharf, was darunter verstanden wird. Somit fallen die Diagnosen zum Zustand der Gesellschaft unterschiedlich, bisweilen sogar gegensätzlich aus. Dieser Literaturüberblick systematisiert das Konzept „politische Polarisierung“ und trägt die bisherigen Befunde zusammen. Gerade mit Blick auf die USA ist die Forschung vielfältig, allerdings nur bedingt übertragba…

  • Arenas of fragile alliance making. Space and interaction in precarious migrant protest in Berlin and Vienna

    Ilker Ataç, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 28

    Comparing migrant protests in Berlin and Vienna, this article analyses dynamics of alliance making in precarious mobilizations. It suggests that a ‘players and arenas’ perspective allows shedding light on the contentious and fragile interactions among a heterogeneous set of players typical for protests in contexts of marginalization. These interactive dynamics involve migrants with various legal status and social backgrounds as well as supporting…

  • Widerstand gegen das System Trump

    E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2021

  • Die Zivilgesellschaft in der Krise: Einblicke aus einer Organisationsbefragung zu den Herausforderungen der Covid-19 Pandemie

    Swen Hutter, Simon Teune et al.•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2021

    Dieser Beitrag präsentiert erste Einblicke in eine Organisationsbefragung zur Auswirkung der COVID-19 Pandemie auf Vereine und Initiativen in Deutschland. Die Studie unterstreicht, dass die Zivilgesellschaft mit großer Wucht getroffen wurde und weitreichende, negative Auswirkungen der Pandemie zu verzeichnen sind. Dennoch zeigen die Ergebnisse ebenfalls, dass sich Teile der Zivilgesellschaft der pandemischen Entwicklung anpassen und ihre Handlung…

  • Black Lives Matter in Europa – Antirassistischer Protest in Deutschland, Italien, Dänemark und Polen im Vergleich

    Sabrina Zajak, Moritz Sommer et al.•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2021

    Article Black Lives Matter in Europa – Antirassistischer Protest in Deutschland, Italien, Dänemark und Polen im Vergleich was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 34, issue 2)

  • Contentious Migrant Solidarity: Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation

    Donatella Della Porta, E Steinhilper•BOOK•Contentious Migrant Solidarity•2021

    By comparing Denmark’s Venligboerne and Germany’s Seebrücke movements, this contribution looks at the ways in which refugee solidarity movements direct their efforts at other scales to cope with a shrinking space of solidarity caused by criminalization and/or depoliticization. By considering national differences in political opportunity structures and institutional frameworks, we offer a critical assessment of both the potentialities and limitati…

  • Introduction: Solidarities in Motion: Hybridity and Change in Migrant Support Practices

    Open Access•Donatella Della Porta, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2021•Cited by: 24•References: 37

    The so-called 'Eurozone' and 'migration' crises mark critical moments in Europe's recent political history and share similarities to the extent that they both have increased political conflict, mobilised large parts of civil society, and put renewed attention upon the notion of 'solidarity'. Focusing on the specific case of solidarity with migrants, this articles argues that times of crises have increasingly blurred the lines between contentious …

  • Countering the Asylum Paradox Through Strategic Humanitarianism: Evidence from Safe Passage Activism in Germany

    Open Access•Helge Schwiertz, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2021•Cited by: 13•References: 20

    This paper inquires the moral and political ambivalences of migrant support located between contentious politics and humanitarian aid. Comparing Save Me and Seebrücke, two cases of pro-migrant activism in Germany claiming the safe passage of migrants to Europe, we develop the notion of 'strategic humanitarianism', a hybrid form of migrant support, in which actors combine the strategic employment of predominantly depoliticizing, narrow and humanit…

  • Pro-migrant protest in times of Covid-19: Intersectional boundary spanning and hybrid protest practices

    Open Access•Sabrina Zajak, Katarina Stjepandić et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 4

    Public policies implemented to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections created unprecedented challenges for social movements. Most striking was the de facto temporary suspension of the right to assembly. Using the case of pro-migrant mobilizations in Germany as an example, we analyse how social movements are affected by and respond to this exceptional context. Instead of a breakdown, we find evidence for a proliferation of mobilization. This is …

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  • The Myth of Apolitical Volunteering for Refugees: German Welcome Culture and a New Dispositif of Helping

    Open Access•Larissa Fleischmann, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social Inclusion•2017•Cited by: 61•References: 13

    During the so-called “refugee crisis”, the notion of an unparalleled German hospitality toward asylum seekers circulated within the (inter)national public sphere, often encapsulated by the blurry buzzword “Welcome Culture”. In this article, we scrutinize these developments and suggest that the image of the so-called “crisis” has activated an unprecedented number of German citizens to engage in practices of “apolitical” helping. We argue that this…

  • Introduction: Solidarities in Motion: Hybridity and Change in Migrant Support Practices

    Open Access•Donatella Della Porta, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2021•Cited by: 24•References: 37

    The so-called 'Eurozone' and 'migration' crises mark critical moments in Europe's recent political history and share similarities to the extent that they both have increased political conflict, mobilised large parts of civil society, and put renewed attention upon the notion of 'solidarity'. Focusing on the specific case of solidarity with migrants, this articles argues that times of crises have increasingly blurred the lines between contentious …

  • Pro-migrant protest in times of Covid-19: Intersectional boundary spanning and hybrid protest practices

    Open Access•Sabrina Zajak, Katarina Stjepandić et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 4

    Public policies implemented to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections created unprecedented challenges for social movements. Most striking was the de facto temporary suspension of the right to assembly. Using the case of pro-migrant mobilizations in Germany as an example, we analyse how social movements are affected by and respond to this exceptional context. Instead of a breakdown, we find evidence for a proliferation of mobilization. This is …

  • A Contested Crisis: Policy Narratives and Empirical Evidence on Border Deaths in the Mediterranean

    Open Access•E Steinhilper, Rob J Gruijters•ARTICLE•Sociology•2018•Cited by: 19•References: 19

    Death and suffering of migrants at Europe's Mediterranean Sea border has become one of the defining moral and political issues of our time. While humanitarian organizations argue that deaths result from Europe's policy of exclusion and closure, those employing a deterrence-oriented narrative have argued for even stricter border controls. Perhaps because of its contentious nature, the debate is often devoid of systematic information on the drivers…

  • Countering the Asylum Paradox Through Strategic Humanitarianism: Evidence from Safe Passage Activism in Germany

    Open Access•Helge Schwiertz, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2021•Cited by: 13•References: 20

    This paper inquires the moral and political ambivalences of migrant support located between contentious politics and humanitarian aid. Comparing Save Me and Seebrücke, two cases of pro-migrant activism in Germany claiming the safe passage of migrants to Europe, we develop the notion of 'strategic humanitarianism', a hybrid form of migrant support, in which actors combine the strategic employment of predominantly depoliticizing, narrow and humanit…

  • Mobilizing in transnational contentious spaces: Linking Relations, Emotions and Space in Migrant Activism

    E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2018•Cited by: 13•References: 30

    Despite proliferation of political protest by migrants in recent years, analyses from a social movement perspective remain scarce. This lacuna is not coincidental, but theoretically grounded. According to dominant movement theories, migrants are unlikely subjects of mobilization due to legal obstacles, scarce resources and closed political and discursive opportunities. The article therefore explores how marginalized migrants organize transnationa…

  • Tokens or Stakeholders in Global Migration Governance? The Role of Affected Communities and Civil Society in the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees

    Open Access•Stefan Rother, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•International Migration•2019•Cited by: 11•References: 3

    Focussing on the inclusion of those primarily affected as stakeholders (refugees and other migrants), this article addresses a key ambition of the compacts themselves. We employ an ‘inside‐outside’ perspective and firstly ask: which groups participated in the consultative processes, what agenda did they set ‘inside’ the meetings, what alliances did they establish and how did they influence the outcomes? Secondly, we investigate what kind of advoc…

  • Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation: Protest for an Open Society in Germany

    Katarina Stjepandić, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•German Politics•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    This article analyses the 'Unteilbar coalition for an open and plural society' in Germany, as an emblematic case to advance scholarship on cross-movement coalition-building and intersectionality in social movement studies. We argue that migration-related polarisation and an accentuated threat of rising far-right mobilisation has provided a context for progressive social movement organisations in Germany to converge and to engage in a particular k…

  • Arenas of fragile alliance making. Space and interaction in precarious migrant protest in Berlin and Vienna

    Ilker Ataç, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 28

    Comparing migrant protests in Berlin and Vienna, this article analyses dynamics of alliance making in precarious mobilizations. It suggests that a ‘players and arenas’ perspective allows shedding light on the contentious and fragile interactions among a heterogeneous set of players typical for protests in contexts of marginalization. These interactive dynamics involve migrants with various legal status and social backgrounds as well as supporting…

  • Agenda setting and selective resonance – Black Lives Matter and media debates on racism in Germany

    Sabrina Zajak, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural and…•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    In this article, we explore how the 2020 wave of BLM mobilisations has impacted the media debates on racism in Germany. We analyse overall shifts in the salience of racism and the resonance of key frames articulated by BLM protesters. Drawing from a mix of quantitative content analysis and semi-structured interviews, we find evidence that the BLM protests have changed the public debate on racism in Germany through agenda setting and reframing. Fi…

  • On the limits of antiracism: How antiracist opposition is connected to racism denial in Germany

    Open Access•Tae Jun Kim, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2025•Cited by: 3•References: 18

  • Antiracist protest in Germany: (Mediated) Racism Experiences and Emotions as Drivers of Mobilization

    Open Access•E Steinhilper, Stefanie Hechler et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 45

    While antiracist protest has gained increasing prominence in Europe in recent years, the lack of representative data has so far prevented an assessment of the scope and drivers of antiracist protest outside of the United States. This paper addresses this gap drawing from a unique survey (N = 5003) on racism in Germany. Building upon sociological and social psychological theories of protest, the article explores the scope and role of key demograph…

  • Patterns of adaptation and recontextualisation: The transnational diffusion of Black Lives Matter to Italy and Germany

    Donatella Della Porta, Anna Lavizzari et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural and…•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 6

    Following the killing of George Floyd on 25 May 2020, a wave of ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) protests swept the globe, including most European countries. In this article, we provide a detailed comparative empirical account of the transnational diffusion of BLM protests from the USA to Italy and Germany. Shedding light on BLM mobilisations outside the USA, we complement theoretical reflections on protest diffusion by inquiring how the interplay of p…

  • Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones

    Open Access•P Monforte, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    Borders as legal, social, and material aspaces of inclusion/exclusion constantly spark resistance, by both migrants and solidarity actors. In this article, we combine the dual observation of a proliferation of border control policies and of migrant and solidarity activism to analyse how different types of border control policies affect the forms of resistance that emerge in them. We inquire on three different cases: first the Calais region at the…

  • Fields of contention as a prism: Toward a Nuanced Role of Parties and Civil Society Actors in Protest Interactions

    Matthias Hoffmann, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 36

    By adopting a theory-oriented case study approach, this article complements recent debates in political sociology on movement-party interactions, parties and protest, and ‘movement parties’ by proposing a relational perspective to the study of fields of contention. We explore how organizational type, as a political party or civil society organization, and political orientation on the left-to-right spectrum affect actors’ roles in local fields of …

  • Selective solidarity? Patterns of support for refugees in Germany

    Theresa Uhr, Marina Seddig et al.•ARTICLE•Politics Groups and Identities•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 3

  • Reconsidering the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism in the Age of Austerity

    Open Access•E Steinhilper, Haris Malamidis•ARTICLE•European Political Science•2016

  • Europeanizing Contention: The Protest Against ‘Fortress Europe’ in France and Germany

    E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2016

    Europeanizing Contention: The Protest Against ‘Fortress Europe’ in France and Germany." Social Movement Studies, 15(2), pp. 239–240

  • The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate

    E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2016

    The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate." Social Movement Studies, 15(4), pp. 434–435

  • The Myth of Apolitical Volunteering for Refugees: German Welcome Culture and a New Dispositif of Helping

    Open Access•Larissa Fleischmann, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social Inclusion•2017•Cited by: 61•References: 13

    During the so-called “refugee crisis”, the notion of an unparalleled German hospitality toward asylum seekers circulated within the (inter)national public sphere, often encapsulated by the blurry buzzword “Welcome Culture”. In this article, we scrutinize these developments and suggest that the image of the so-called “crisis” has activated an unprecedented number of German citizens to engage in practices of “apolitical” helping. We argue that this…

  • Mobilizing in transnational contentious spaces: Linking Relations, Emotions and Space in Migrant Activism

    E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2018•Cited by: 13•References: 30

    Despite proliferation of political protest by migrants in recent years, analyses from a social movement perspective remain scarce. This lacuna is not coincidental, but theoretically grounded. According to dominant movement theories, migrants are unlikely subjects of mobilization due to legal obstacles, scarce resources and closed political and discursive opportunities. The article therefore explores how marginalized migrants organize transnationa…

  • A Contested Crisis: Policy Narratives and Empirical Evidence on Border Deaths in the Mediterranean

    Open Access•E Steinhilper, Rob J Gruijters•ARTICLE•Sociology•2018•Cited by: 19•References: 19

    Death and suffering of migrants at Europe's Mediterranean Sea border has become one of the defining moral and political issues of our time. While humanitarian organizations argue that deaths result from Europe's policy of exclusion and closure, those employing a deterrence-oriented narrative have argued for even stricter border controls. Perhaps because of its contentious nature, the debate is often devoid of systematic information on the drivers…

  • Dynamiques de protestation politique des exilés afghans à Berlin: Entre « silence » et « prise de parole »

    E Steinhilper, Miriam Périer•ARTICLE•Critique internationale•2019

    En Allemagne, l’« été des migrations » de l’année 2015 a entraîné une série de restrictions de la loi sur le droit d’asile et provoqué un débat public de plus en plus hostile envers les populations étrangères. Les Afghans, qui constituent l’une des principales communautés de migrants de ce pays, ont été particulièrement touchés par ces revirements politiques. Leurs dynamiques de mobilisations politiques à Berlin sont analysées ici à partir d’un t…

  • Tokens or Stakeholders in Global Migration Governance? The Role of Affected Communities and Civil Society in the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees

    Open Access•Stefan Rother, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•International Migration•2019•Cited by: 11•References: 3

    Focussing on the inclusion of those primarily affected as stakeholders (refugees and other migrants), this article addresses a key ambition of the compacts themselves. We employ an ‘inside‐outside’ perspective and firstly ask: which groups participated in the consultative processes, what agenda did they set ‘inside’ the meetings, what alliances did they establish and how did they influence the outcomes? Secondly, we investigate what kind of advoc…

  • Political translation: How Social Movement Democracies Survive

    E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019

    Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a rich literature on democratic innovations, building upon both the classics of political theory and empirical observations of practised modes of partic

  • Pro-migrant protest in times of Covid-19: Intersectional boundary spanning and hybrid protest practices

    Open Access•Sabrina Zajak, Katarina Stjepandić et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 4

    Public policies implemented to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections created unprecedented challenges for social movements. Most striking was the de facto temporary suspension of the right to assembly. Using the case of pro-migrant mobilizations in Germany as an example, we analyse how social movements are affected by and respond to this exceptional context. Instead of a breakdown, we find evidence for a proliferation of mobilization. This is …

  • Widerstand gegen das System Trump

    E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2021

  • Die Zivilgesellschaft in der Krise: Einblicke aus einer Organisationsbefragung zu den Herausforderungen der Covid-19 Pandemie

    Swen Hutter, Simon Teune et al.•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2021

    Dieser Beitrag präsentiert erste Einblicke in eine Organisationsbefragung zur Auswirkung der COVID-19 Pandemie auf Vereine und Initiativen in Deutschland. Die Studie unterstreicht, dass die Zivilgesellschaft mit großer Wucht getroffen wurde und weitreichende, negative Auswirkungen der Pandemie zu verzeichnen sind. Dennoch zeigen die Ergebnisse ebenfalls, dass sich Teile der Zivilgesellschaft der pandemischen Entwicklung anpassen und ihre Handlung…

  • Black Lives Matter in Europa – Antirassistischer Protest in Deutschland, Italien, Dänemark und Polen im Vergleich

    Sabrina Zajak, Moritz Sommer et al.•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2021

    Article Black Lives Matter in Europa – Antirassistischer Protest in Deutschland, Italien, Dänemark und Polen im Vergleich was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 34, issue 2)

  • Contentious Migrant Solidarity: Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation

    Donatella Della Porta, E Steinhilper•BOOK•Contentious Migrant Solidarity•2021

    By comparing Denmark’s Venligboerne and Germany’s Seebrücke movements, this contribution looks at the ways in which refugee solidarity movements direct their efforts at other scales to cope with a shrinking space of solidarity caused by criminalization and/or depoliticization. By considering national differences in political opportunity structures and institutional frameworks, we offer a critical assessment of both the potentialities and limitati…

  • Introduction: Solidarities in Motion: Hybridity and Change in Migrant Support Practices

    Open Access•Donatella Della Porta, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2021•Cited by: 24•References: 37

    The so-called 'Eurozone' and 'migration' crises mark critical moments in Europe's recent political history and share similarities to the extent that they both have increased political conflict, mobilised large parts of civil society, and put renewed attention upon the notion of 'solidarity'. Focusing on the specific case of solidarity with migrants, this articles argues that times of crises have increasingly blurred the lines between contentious …

  • Countering the Asylum Paradox Through Strategic Humanitarianism: Evidence from Safe Passage Activism in Germany

    Open Access•Helge Schwiertz, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Critical Sociology•2021•Cited by: 13•References: 20

    This paper inquires the moral and political ambivalences of migrant support located between contentious politics and humanitarian aid. Comparing Save Me and Seebrücke, two cases of pro-migrant activism in Germany claiming the safe passage of migrants to Europe, we develop the notion of 'strategic humanitarianism', a hybrid form of migrant support, in which actors combine the strategic employment of predominantly depoliticizing, narrow and humanit…

  • Gespaltene Gesellschaft? Politische Polarisierung: Zustand, Debatten, Folgen

    Jochen Roose, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2022

  • Politische Polarisierung: Zur Systematisierung eines vielschichtigen Konzepts

    Jochen Roose, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2022

    Debatten um gesellschaftliche Spaltung haben derzeit Konjunktur. Allerdings bleibt oft unscharf, was darunter verstanden wird. Somit fallen die Diagnosen zum Zustand der Gesellschaft unterschiedlich, bisweilen sogar gegensätzlich aus. Dieser Literaturüberblick systematisiert das Konzept „politische Polarisierung“ und trägt die bisherigen Befunde zusammen. Gerade mit Blick auf die USA ist die Forschung vielfältig, allerdings nur bedingt übertragba…

  • Arenas of fragile alliance making. Space and interaction in precarious migrant protest in Berlin and Vienna

    Ilker Ataç, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 28

    Comparing migrant protests in Berlin and Vienna, this article analyses dynamics of alliance making in precarious mobilizations. It suggests that a ‘players and arenas’ perspective allows shedding light on the contentious and fragile interactions among a heterogeneous set of players typical for protests in contexts of marginalization. These interactive dynamics involve migrants with various legal status and social backgrounds as well as supporting…

  • Agenda setting and selective resonance – Black Lives Matter and media debates on racism in Germany

    Sabrina Zajak, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural and…•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    In this article, we explore how the 2020 wave of BLM mobilisations has impacted the media debates on racism in Germany. We analyse overall shifts in the salience of racism and the resonance of key frames articulated by BLM protesters. Drawing from a mix of quantitative content analysis and semi-structured interviews, we find evidence that the BLM protests have changed the public debate on racism in Germany through agenda setting and reframing. Fi…

  • Patterns of adaptation and recontextualisation: The transnational diffusion of Black Lives Matter to Italy and Germany

    Donatella Della Porta, Anna Lavizzari et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural and…•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 6

    Following the killing of George Floyd on 25 May 2020, a wave of ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) protests swept the globe, including most European countries. In this article, we provide a detailed comparative empirical account of the transnational diffusion of BLM protests from the USA to Italy and Germany. Shedding light on BLM mobilisations outside the USA, we complement theoretical reflections on protest diffusion by inquiring how the interplay of p…

  • Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones

    Open Access•P Monforte, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    Borders as legal, social, and material aspaces of inclusion/exclusion constantly spark resistance, by both migrants and solidarity actors. In this article, we combine the dual observation of a proliferation of border control policies and of migrant and solidarity activism to analyse how different types of border control policies affect the forms of resistance that emerge in them. We inquire on three different cases: first the Calais region at the…

  • Forging Plural Coalitions in Times of Polarisation: Protest for an Open Society in Germany

    Katarina Stjepandić, E Steinhilper et al.•ARTICLE•German Politics•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    This article analyses the 'Unteilbar coalition for an open and plural society' in Germany, as an emblematic case to advance scholarship on cross-movement coalition-building and intersectionality in social movement studies. We argue that migration-related polarisation and an accentuated threat of rising far-right mobilisation has provided a context for progressive social movement organisations in Germany to converge and to engage in a particular k…

  • Antirassismus in Deutschland – soziale Bewegung und staatliche Politik

    E Steinhilper, Tae Jun Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2024

  • Wer setzt sich in Deutschland gegen Rassismus ein? Antirassistischer Protest im Spiegel repräsentativer Daten

    Tae Jun Kim, E Steinhilper•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2024

    Antirassistischer Protest hat in Deutschland zuletzt deutlich an Sichtbarkeit gewonnen. Aufgrund mangelnder Daten sind allerdings einige grundlegende Fragen ungeklärt, darunter: Wie groß ist das Mobilisierungspotenzial für antirassistischen Protest und welche sozialen, psychologischen und politischen Faktoren erklären Protestpotenzial und -praxis? In diesem Beitrag greifen wir auf empirische Daten zurück, die im Rahmen einer repräsentativen Panel…

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