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Practices of Refugee Support Between Humanitarian Help And Larissa Fleischmann Contested Solidarity Culture and Social Practice Larissa Fleischmann, born in 1989, works as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Human Geography at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She received her PhD from the University of Konstanz, where she was a member of the Centre of Excellence »Cultural Foundations of Social Integration« and the Social and Cultu- ral Anthropology Research Group from 2014 to 2018. Larissa Fleischmann Contested Solidarity Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism Dissertation of the University of Konstanz Date of the oral examination: February 15, 2019 1st reviewer: Prof. Dr. Thomas G. Kirsch 2nd reviewer: PD Dr. Eva Youkhana 3rd reviewer: Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer This publication was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Re- search Foundation) - Project number 448887013. The author acknowledges the financial support of the Open Access Publication Fund of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The field research for this publication was funded by the Centre of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Social Integration”, University of Konstanz. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Na- tionalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 (BY- NC) license, which means that the text may be remixed, build upon and be distributed, provided credit is given to the author, but may not be used for commercial purposes. For details go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Permission to use the text for commercial purposes can be obtained by contacting rights@ transcript-publishing.com Creative Commons license terms for re-use do not apply to any content (such as graphs, figures, photos, excerpts, etc.) not original to the Open Access publication and further permission may be required from the rights holder. The obligation to research and clear permission lies solely with the party re-using the material. © 2020 transcript Verlag, Bielefeld Cover layout: Maria Arndt, Bielefeld Cover illustration: fsHH / pixabay.com Printed by Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH, Wetzlar Print-ISBN 978-3-8376-5437-0 PDF-ISBN 978-3-8394-5437-4 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839454374 Printed on permanent acid-free text paper. Contents 1. INTRODUCTION: The Contested Solidarities of the German ‘Welcome Culture’ . 9 1.1. The Spirit of Summer 2015: “We Want to Help Refugees!” ....................... 9 1.2. The Political Ambivalences of Refugee Support.................................16 1.2.1. Refugee Support as Political Action .....................................16 1.2.2. Refugee Support as Antipolitical Action ................................. 21 1.3. Conceptualizing Solidarity in Migration Societies .............................. 23 1.3.1. Solidarity as a Contested Imaginary .................................... 25 1.3.2. Solidarity as Utopian Ideal ............................................. 26 1.3.3. Solidarity as a Transformative Relationship ............................ 27 1.3.4. Solidarity as Power Asymmetry ........................................ 28 1.3.5. Solidarity as Social Glue ............................................... 29 1.4. The Political Possibilities of Grassroots Humanitarianism ...................... 30 1.4.1. The Mobilizing Effects of Emergency Situations ......................... 31 1.4.2. Reflecting on the Causes of Suffering ................................. 32 1.4.3. ‘Humanity’ as a Political Identity ....................................... 33 1.4.4. The Political Power of an ‘Apolitical’ Positioning ........................ 34 1.4.5. Humanitarian Dissent ................................................. 35 1.5. Rethinking Political Action in Migration Societies .............................. 36 1.6. Researching Solidarity in the German ‘Summer of Welcome’: Field, Access, Methods, Ethics............................................................... 40 1.7. AnOutlineof Contested Solidarity ............................................. 46 2. MOBILIZING SOLIDARITY: Building Local ‘Welcome Culture’ through a Moral Imperative to Act ............................................................. 51 2.1. The Notion of a ‘Welcome Culture’ and its Mobilizing Effects .................... 51 2.2. Humanitarian Dissent: The Solidarity March ‘Ellwangen Shows its Colours’ ...... 55 2.2.1. Mobilizing a Moral Imperative to Act .................................... 56 2.2.2. Behind the Scenes of ‘Apolitical’ Action.................................. 61 2.2.3. The Political Messages of the Solidarity March .......................... 66 2.3. Humanitarian Governance: Volunteering with Refugees in Ellwangen ............ 71 2.3.1. Mobilizing a Need to Help .............................................. 72 2.3.2. Volunteering as a Symbiotic Relationship............................... 76 2.3.3. The Role of Social Welfare Organizations ............................... 79 2.4. Concluding Remarks: Practices of Solidarity between Dissent and Co-Optation . 83 3. GOVERNING SOLIDARITY: Volunteering with Refugees as a Field of Governmental Intervention .................................................. 85 3.1. Governmental Interventions in the Conduct of Volunteering with Refugees ..... 85 3.2. (Re)Ordering Responsibilities in the Reception of Asylum Seekers ............. 88 3.2.1. The Birth of ‘Civil Society’ as a Responsible Actor ...................... 89 3.2.2. “Civil Society is the Music between the Notes”: The Impetus for Meaningful Cooperation ............................................ 92 3.2.3. Negotiating the Boundary between ‘State’ and ‘Civil Society’ ............ 96 3.3. (Re)Shaping the Self-Conduct of Committed Citizens ......................... 100 3.3.1. “Volunteering Makes You Happy”: Promoting the Personal Benefits of Volunteering.......................................................... 100 3.3.2. Shaping ‘Socialized Selves’ ............................................ 104 3.3.3. Coordinating Volunteers through Professionals ........................ 108 3.4. Depoliticizing “Uncomfortable” Practices of Refugee Support.................. 112 3.4.1. The Dark Side of ‘Civil Society’ ......................................... 112 3.4.2. Deportations and the Contested Space of Disagreement ............... 115 3.5. Concluding Remarks: The Government of Refugee Solidarity ................... 119 4. POLITICIZING SOLIDARITY: The Contested Political Meanings and Effects of Refugee Support ............................................................. 121 4.1. “We are also Political Volunteers!” ............................................ 121 4.2. Politics of Presence: Enacting Alternative Visions of Society.................. 125 4.2.1. The Deficiencies of National Citizenship .............................. 125 4.2.2. Presence as an Alternative Mode of Belonging .........................127 4.3. Contestations around Equal Rights ............................................ 131 4.3.1. Solidarity Cities: Universal Demands for Equal Rights ................. 132 4.3.2. Ambivalent Positions and Conditional Hospitality ...................... 135 4.4. Contestations around a Right to Stay......................................... 139 4.4.1. Taking, or not Taking a Stand against Deportations ................... 139 4.4.2. Counteracting the European Union .................................... 145 4.5. Contestations around a Right to Migrate.......................................147 4.6. Concluding Remarks: Emerging Meanings of Political Action in Migration Societies........................................................ 152 5. RECASTING SOLIDARITY: The Political Agency of Asylum Seekers in Relationships of Solidarity .................................................. 155 5.1. Insubordinate Recipients: Asylum Seekers’ Interventions in Relationships of Solidarity.................................................................... 155 5.2. The Intermediated Agency of Asylum Seekers ................................ 158 5.3. (De)politicizing the Meanings of Food: The Intermediation of Migrant Protest in Bad Waldsee ............................................................... 161 5.3.1. The Unheard Requests of the Protesting Asylum Seekers .............. 162 5.3.2. Depoliticizing Responses to the Protests .............................. 165 5.3.3. Recasting Relationships of Solidarity ................................... 171 5.4. Deterring ‘Economic Migrants’: The Intermediation of Migrant Protest in Offenburg ...............................................176 5.4.1. Depoliticizing Responses to the Protests ...............................176 5.4.2. Food Provision as a “Strategy of Deterrence” .......................... 180 5.4.3. Politicizing Responses to the Protests................................. 184 5.5. Concluding Remarks: The Agency of Asylum Seekers in the Contestation of Solidarity.................................................................... 189 6. BREAKING SOLIDARITY: Refugee Activism as a Conflicting Imaginary of Solidarity and Community................................................... 193 6.1. At the Frontlines of Solidarity and Community ............................... 193 6.2. A Short History of Refugee Activism in Schwäbisch Gmünd ....................197 6.3. The Breaking of Relationships of Solidarity
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