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Contested Solidarity
In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents felt an urge to provide help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not as simple and straightforward as it might appear. Practices of solidarity are intertwined with questions of power. They are situated, relative and contested, unfolding in an ambivalent space between humanitarianism and political activism. This ethnographic account of the German »welcome culture« provides insights into the contested practices, imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity. Drawing on works from critical migration studies to social anthropology, Larissa Fleischmann develops an empirically grounded understanding of solidarity in migration societies.
Migration and Making an Income in the Context of ‘Human Trafficking’
The book focuses on volatile processes at the South African-Zimbabwean border that arise from practices of migration and income generating activities. The processes are influenced by neoliberal developments and controversial discourses on migration, commercial sexual services, and human trafficking. In this unstable environment, different actors continuously negotiate, trying to achieve stable positions. By addressing issues related to migration and income generating activities, they maneuver between legal rules and their own moral values and interests. In their attempt to classify incidents in the border context that are unclear to them, actors’ explanations are partly based on the concep...
Migration, Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society
This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how, and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others, exploring the importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies. The question of how to live together in increasingly multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multireligious societies is a pressing political and policy issue, particularly as we witness a rise in right-wing populism and anti-immigrant sentiments. This book addresses the limitations of approaches that seek to secure borders, preventing the arrival of newcomers altogether, or that vacillate between assimilation and ...
Contentious Migrant Solidarity
In the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics, the notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence and - as this book argues - its practice has become increasingly contentious. Intersecting crises have sharpened social and political polarization and have contracted simultaneously the space for migrant and minority rights as well as the rights around political dissent. Building upon social movement and migration studies, this book maps the two sides of ‘contentious solidarity’: a shrinking civic space and its contestation by civil society. The book thereby unfolds the variety of repressive means (physical, legal, administrative and discursive...
Sich und anderen gerecht werden
Für wen setzen wir uns als Gesellschaft ein und wie? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigen sich ehrenamtliche Pat:innen im Rahmen ihrer praktischen Beziehungsarbeit. Sie versuchen, das Leben von geflüchteten Menschen oder Kindern psychisch erkrankter Eltern durch alltägliche Kontakte zu verbessern. Laura Gozzer porträtiert das Engagement einer urbanen Mittelklasse und analysiert aus ethikanthropologischer Perspektive die Motive und Ansprüche, aber auch Zweifel und Unsicherheiten der Ehrenamtlichen. Die ethnografische Studie eröffnet intime Einblicke in Pat:innenschaften und leuchtet aus, was eine Gesellschaft zusammenhält, welche Subjektivitäten soziales Engagement hervorbringt und wo die Grenzen des Für-Andere-Da-Seins liegen. Die Dissertation wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem Hochschulpreis der Landeshautstadt München und dem Preis der Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft 2022.
Rag Fair
In the early Victorian age, the streets of East London were home to migrants from different regions and religions. In the midst of this area lay the famous Rag Fair street market, sustained by trade routes stretching across the globe. The market’s history demonstrates that it was not only a place of economic exchange, but also an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships and forged political alliances. Reconstructing the varied (partly multiethnic) group-building processes operating in the market, Rag Fair draws on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology and the sociology of political movements to uncover the social mechanisms at work in the old clothing trade.
Engagement im Wandel - Wandel durch Engagement
Die »Flüchtlingskrise« und ihre »Willkommenskultur« 2015 haben auch in Sachsen für viel Improvisation und Spontanität gesorgt. Migration und Integration als Lernfelder für Gesellschaft und Politik haben dabei eine Fülle an Engagementformen hervorgebracht. Aber was geschieht langfristig mit ihnen? Wo sind die Grenzen und Möglichkeitsräume von Engagement? Stefanie Adamitz beleuchtet in ihrer ethnografischen Studie zum Engagement in Leipzig den dynamischen Wandel in Zivilgesellschaft und Asylpolitik als Wechselwirkung. Sie hinterfragt gängige Beschreibungen politischer Handlungen und Felder und wirft einen detaillierten Blick auf die Beziehungen von Zivilgesellschaft und Staat.
Umstrittene Solidarität
Was heißt Solidarität? Wer darf sie fordern? Und wer darf in wessen Namen und in Bezug auf welche Gemeinsamkeiten sprechen? Obwohl diese Fragen so komplex wie ungeklärt sind, gewinnt der emanzipatorische bis revolutionäre Aspekt der Solidaritätsidee zunehmend an Relevanz. Solidarität changiert zwischen einem Kampfbegriff und der Frage nach alternativen Lebens- und Praxisformen, die sich von gewohnten Auffassungen von Freiheit, Besitz, Ressourcen oder Existenz zu lösen versprechen. Die Beiträger*innen eröffnen die Fragen nach Zugehörigkeit und Ungleichheit neu und analysieren die Gestaltung von Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, die sich stets an der Heterogenität sozialer Kategorien bricht.
Civic Activism in South Korea
In recent decades, neoliberalism has transformed South Korean society, going far beyond simply restructuring the economy. In response, a number of civic organizations that emerged from the democratization movement with a conscious emphasis on social change have sought to address socioeconomic and political problems caused or aggravated by the neoliberal transformation. Examining how “citizens’ organizations” in South Korea negotiate with the market and neoliberal governance, Seungsook Moon offers new ways to understand the intricate relationship between democracy and neoliberalism as modes of ruling. She provides in-depth qualitative studies of three different types of organizations: a...
