Citizen humanitarianism at European borders / edited by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Elisa Pascucci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gabrielsen Jumbert, Maria.

Contributor:

Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen, editor.

Pascucci, Elisa, editor.

Series:

Routledge humanitarian studies series.

Routledge humanitarian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian assistance, European--Citizen participation.

Humanitarian assistance, European.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ by-nc-nd cc

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003094852

1003094856

9781000377897

100037789X

9781000377910

1000377911

OCLC:

1251441907

Publisher Number:

10.4324/9781003094852

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access