Publikation: Europe Trouble: Welcome Culture and the Disruption of the European Border Regime

4. Dezember 2020

Welche Praktiken von Freiwilligenhilfe und zivilgesellschaftlicher Solidarität lassen sich seit dem Sommer der Migration 2015 beobachten, und was sagen sie uns über Europas Grenzregime? Diesen Fragen ging das internationale und interdisziplinäre Helping Hands Research Network unter Mitwirkung von Kerstin Poehls von 2017 bis 2019 nach - auch im Rahmen eines Workshops Hamburg. In einem Special Issue des Nordic Journal of Migration Research (NJMR) sind die Ergebnisse jetzt nachlesbar:

Europe Trouble: Welcome Culture and the Disruption of the European Border Regime 
 
Contributions by Kolar Aparna, Oumar Kande, Joris Schapendonk, Olivier Kramsch, Cetta Mainwaring, Gareth Mulvey, Terese Piacentini, Ruth Lamb, Selina Hales, Daniela DeBono, Line Steen Bygballe Jensen, Lydia Kirchner, Kerstin Poehls, Dorte Andersen and Marie Sandberg.

As a result of the Helping Hands Research Network, financed by the Danish Research Council 2017-2019, we am very happy to present this new special issue of Nordic Journal of Migration Research, co-edited by Dorte J. Andersen and Marie Sandberg.

The special issue takes as its point of departure the volunteer practices connected to informal refugee reception during and after the refugee arrivals to Europe in 2015. Yet the special issue moves beyond this ‘moment of crisis’ by relating it to more established and continuous practices of solidarity and civil society participation. The authors in this special issue thereby emphasise what is at stake in the mobilisation of European citizens into self-made refugee helpers, or what we suggest to call everyday humanitarians.
Thanks to all the contributors and the editors of NJMR, Synnove Bendixsen and Lena Nare as well as Peter Holley, for a wonderful collaboration. Enjoy!