| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Routledge humanitarian studies |
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Routledge humanitarian studies series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : citizen humanitarianism at European borders / Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Elisa Pascucci -- Filling the baps : citizen humanitarianism in the context of crisis abandonment and criminalisation / Heidi Mogstad -- A community center in a humanitarian context : the professionalization of a grassroots initiative in Istanbul, Turkey / Tsjalline Boorsma -- Citizen humanitarianism and local responses to the migration crisis in Serbia / Svetlana Stanarević and Vanja Rokvić -- "They just come and try to help" : exploring the prioritisation of downstream accountability in Calais' citizen-led humanitarianism / Leila Denniston -- Melilla : fight and survival of activist humanitarianism / Clara Miralles Vila -- A more subversive humanitarianism? : the political strategies of grassroots initiatives supporting illegalized migrants / Robin Vandevoordt -- Beyond borders : the transnational turn of Russian refugee aid / Johanne Kalsaas -- Contesting humanitarianism through solidarity and hospitality in the French-Italian borderscape / Janina Louise Pescinski -- Proximity and protest : citizen demonstrations against anti-immigrant policies in eastern Sicily / Vera Haller -- Memorial tourism and citizen humanitarianism : volunteers' civil pilgrimage to the "life jackets graveyard" of Lesvos, Greece / Giovanna Di Matteo -- Approaching biographical life : grassroots humanitarianism in Europe / Luděk Stavinoha and Kavita Ramakrishnan -- Conclusion : citizen humanitarianism beyond the "crisis" / Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Elisa Pascucci. |
| Summary |
"At a time of escalating conflict between states and NGOs engaged in migrant search and rescue operations across the Mediterranean, this book explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of helping others at the borders of Europe. In recent years, Europe's borders have become new sites of intervention for traditional humanitarian actors and governmental agencies, but also, increasingly, for volunteer and activist initiatives led by "ordinary" citizens. This book sets out to interrogate the shifting relationship between humanitarianism, the securitization of border and migration regimes, and citizenship. Critically examining the "do it yourself" character of refugee aid practices performed by non-professionals coming together to help in informal and spontaneous manners, the volume considers the extent to which these new humanitarian practices challenge established conceptualisations of membership, belonging, and active citizenship. Drawing on case studies from countries around Europe including Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Russia, this collection constitutes an innovative and theoretically engaged attempt to bring the field of humanitarian studies into dialogue with studies of grassroots refugee aid and, more explicitly, with political forms of solidarity with migrants and refugees which fall between aid and activism. This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of humanitarian aid, European migration and refugees, and citizen-led activism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2021). |
| Biography |
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert is a senior researcher and research director at the Dimensions of Security Department, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. Elisa Pascucci is a researcher at EuroStorie CoE, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland. |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Humanitarian assistance, European -- Citizen participation.
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Refugees -- Services for -- Europe.
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Immigrants -- Services for -- Europe.
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Non-governmental organizations -- Europe.
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Refugees -- Government policy -- Europe.
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Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst00908700
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Immigrants -- Services for.
(OCoLC)fst00967773
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Non-governmental organizations. (OCoLC)fst01038524
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Refugees -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst01092811
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Refugees -- Services for.
(OCoLC)fst01092841
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Added Author |
Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen, editor.
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Pascucci, Elisa, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Citizen humanitarianism at European borders Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9780367557133 (DLC) 2020049601 |
| ISBN |
100037789X electronic book |
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9781000377910 electronic book |
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1000377911 electronic book |
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9781003094852 electronic book |
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1003094856 electronic book |
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9781000377897 (electronic book) |
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9780367557133 hardcover |
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9780367557140 (paperback) |
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