Acts of Volunteering for Refugees
Local Responses to Global Challenges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7934602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Line Steen Bygballe Jensen, Lydia Maria Kirchner (University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 26-40 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordic Journal of Migration Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1799-649X • E-ISSN: 1799-649X |
| Publisher | Helsinki University Press (PUBLISHER • FI) |
| DOI | 10.33134/njmr.367 |
| OpenAlex | W3107091255 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article explores volunteering in grassroots networks that formed to support refugees arriving to Europe, in the context of a socio-political landscape marked by disunity in 2015. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Berlin and Copenhagen in 2017, the article analyses grassroots volunteering as local responses to global challenges. The analysis draws theoretical inspiration from a performative approach and concentrates on everyday activities in the networks, with a focus on the motivations and rationales of the volunteers. Building on dynamic understandings of citizenship and borders as proposed by Engin Isin and Chris Rumford, this article discusses the volunteer activities as acts of volunteering that negotiate who belongs in a given society and thus rearrange the notion of citizenship. In this context, this article argues that grassroots networks function as platforms for testing out forms of everyday activism in the specific socio-political context
Citizenship · Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Grassroots · Media studies · Negotiation · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Refugee Volunteering and Responses to Displacement in Uganda
Volunteering in the front line of the Ukrainian refugee crisis
Activism and ‘lived religion’
A Relational Ethics of Immigration
Civic Integration through Commissioned Communities
Multicultural Voluntarism–The Second-Hand Shop in Bodø, Norway, as Arena for New Encounters
On the Right Side of History
Toward a (co)relational border? Order, care, and chaos at Nordic borders
Social participation of youth through volunteering
Practicing Willkommenskultur
Citizenship in flux
The Myth of Apolitical Volunteering for Refugees
Under Control? Or Border (as) Conflict
Introduction
Description as Intervention
Un/doing Differences. Die Kontingenz sozialer Zugehörigkeiten / Un/doing Differences. The Contingency of Social Belonging
The refugee crisis
Theorizing Borders
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |