I take care and the state sabotages from the beginning to the end
Tracing ‘volunteering’ in European provision arrangements for refugees and asylum seekers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7724883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katrin Kremmel (0000-0002-0206-3537, University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 465-480 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2022.2151570 |
| OpenAlex | W4310726098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 42 |
In the spring of 2015, the citizens’ initiative ‘We Welcome’ in a small municipality in Western Austria published a manifesto to announce that it had invented and granted ‘municipal asylum’ to two asylum seekers, to protect them from deportation by national authorities. In this article, I follow the logics of the extended case method as I discuss the initiative We Welcome as an extraordinary example of volunteering in the asylum regime. Recent literature on the role of volunteers in refugee reception fails to historically situate volunteering as part and parcel of provision arrangements for asylum seekers and refugees. I address this gap by looking into the emergence of ‘volunteering’ as an object of knowledge production and policy-making since the 1980s. I further show that the experiences of the initiative’s participants run counter to hegemonic discourses, which picture ‘volunteering’ as a means to produce trust and social cohesion. Instead of eliciting their trust, their experiences as volunteers deeply alienated them from the nation-state, and their citizenship was unsettled
Asylum seeker · Citizenship · Criminology · Democracy · Deportation · Hegemony · Immigration · Manifesto · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues
The third way
Refugees and Exile
Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe
The Failure of Civil Society
The Discursive Construction of National Identity
‘We Begin with Our Favorite Theory …’
Humanitarianism as Politics
Eroding Rights, Crafting Solidarity? Shifting Dynamics in the State–Civil Society Nexus in Flanders and Brussels
Solidarity as a Field of Political Contention
Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable
Opening Up the “Black Box” of “Volunteering”
Cities as sites of refuge and resistance
Disabled and elderly citizens' perceptions and experiences of voluntarism as an alternative to publically financed care in the Netherlands
A port in a storm
Landscapes of voluntarism
Precarious Citizenship and Melancholic Longing
Displacement of European citizen Roma in Berlin
Residents’ responses to refugee reception
We hugged each other during the cold nights
The spatialities of contentious politics
Refugee Protest Camp Vienna
Differential solidarity
Becoming Part of Welfare Scandinavia
Asylum and refugee support in the UK
Rethinking Voluntary Work
Unwaged labour intensified
Refugee Hospitality Encounters in Northern Portugal
The Moral Neoliberal
The Paradox of Participation
Blurred Boundaries
The Extended Case Method
Spatializing States
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |