Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable: The Contested Role of ‘Civil Society’ in the German Welcome Culture

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Autor(a) principal: Fleischmann, Larissa
Data de Publicação: 2019
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i2.1979
Resumo: This article investigates the manifold attempts of governmental actors to make volunteering with refugees governable in light of the so-called German Welcome Culture in 2015. Driven by the notion of a need to interfere, authorities introduced numerous programmes and efforts seeking to order, coordinate, influence, and enhance volunteering with refugees in order to make it more “effective”. This investigation will suggest reading these interventions as attempts to (re)gain control and power over the conduct of committed citizens, making them complicit in the governance of asylum seekers, while co-opting potentially dissenting behaviour amongst them. Yet, it will also reveal how certain volunteers proved to contest their ascribed roles and responsibilities, demanding space for disagreement. Volunteering with refugees thus also constantly exceeded and defied governmental control and interference—and thereby remained, at least to a certain extent, ungovernable.
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title Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable: The Contested Role of ‘Civil Society’ in the German Welcome Culture
spellingShingle Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable: The Contested Role of ‘Civil Society’ in the German Welcome Culture
Fleischmann, Larissa
civil society; civic solidarity; European refugee crisis; Germany; governance; humanitarianism; refugees; volunteering; Welcome Culture
title_short Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable: The Contested Role of ‘Civil Society’ in the German Welcome Culture
title_full Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable: The Contested Role of ‘Civil Society’ in the German Welcome Culture
title_fullStr Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable: The Contested Role of ‘Civil Society’ in the German Welcome Culture
title_full_unstemmed Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable: The Contested Role of ‘Civil Society’ in the German Welcome Culture
title_sort Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable: The Contested Role of ‘Civil Society’ in the German Welcome Culture
author Fleischmann, Larissa
author_facet Fleischmann, Larissa
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv civil society; civic solidarity; European refugee crisis; Germany; governance; humanitarianism; refugees; volunteering; Welcome Culture
topic civil society; civic solidarity; European refugee crisis; Germany; governance; humanitarianism; refugees; volunteering; Welcome Culture
description This article investigates the manifold attempts of governmental actors to make volunteering with refugees governable in light of the so-called German Welcome Culture in 2015. Driven by the notion of a need to interfere, authorities introduced numerous programmes and efforts seeking to order, coordinate, influence, and enhance volunteering with refugees in order to make it more “effective”. This investigation will suggest reading these interventions as attempts to (re)gain control and power over the conduct of committed citizens, making them complicit in the governance of asylum seekers, while co-opting potentially dissenting behaviour amongst them. Yet, it will also reveal how certain volunteers proved to contest their ascribed roles and responsibilities, demanding space for disagreement. Volunteering with refugees thus also constantly exceeded and defied governmental control and interference—and thereby remained, at least to a certain extent, ungovernable.
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