"Let Them In!" Humanitarian Work as Political Activism? The Case of the Maximiliaan Refugee Camp in Brussels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5711178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dirk Lafaut (0000-0002-2109-2974, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, corresponding author), Gily Coene (0000-0002-8158-0718, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-203 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1556-2948 • E-ISSN: 1556-2956 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15562948.2018.1430283 |
| OpenAlex | W2791775599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 17 |
Humanitarian aid projects associated with the emergence of refugee camps within European territories are generally perceived as apolitical. Scholars however, are increasingly questioning this view, pointing to many, often untold, ways in which humanitarianism interacts with the politics of migration and border enforcement. This article examines the case of a temporary refugee camp set up in Brussels in September 2015. We show how organizational and spatiotemporal particularities, as well as media framing of the humanitarian assistance, led to controversy, civil initiatives, and hyperpoliticization, eventually calling the state to take responsibility for the refugees, but simultaneously silenced other explicit political responses
Civil society · Criminology · Enforcement · Humanitarian aid · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Refugee crisis · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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Introduction
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |