Narratives of “Welcome Culture
The Cultural Politics of Voluntary Aid for Refugees
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7930680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ove Sutter (0000-0003-2692-4001, corresponding author), Sutter Sutter |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Narrative Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2169-0235 • E-ISSN: 2169-0251 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.13110/narrcult.6.1.0019 |
| OpenAlex | W3150980507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Drawing on an ethnographic and discourse-analytic study, this article examines the meaning and function of narrative in the civic engagement of volunteers who provided humanitarian aid to refugees during the migratory movements of 2015. I argue that a group of self-organized volunteers in a German town used diffferent kinds of narrative during their engagement to advance their own views on the migratory movements and on voluntary work with refugees. A collective narrative in terms of a cognitive structure evolved during the event that shaped the relationship between the volunteers and authorities
Cognition · Ethnography · German · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Voluntary association · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |