“Volem Acollir”: Humanitarismo y Posiciones de Sujeto en la Articulación de la Solidaridad en Cataluña

Abstract

RESUMEN La llamada “crisis de los refugiados” en el Mar Mediterráneo ha provocado una gran mobilización social de solidaridad. Este artículo parte de Producciones Narrativas realizadas con iniciativas solidarias que participaron en una campaña ciudadana en Cataluña para analizar 1) las implicaciones de su problematización en términos de “crisis”; y 2) las posiciones de sujeto que emergen en la articulación de la respuesta solidaria. Exploramos dos posiciones que se corresponden con las dos caras de una relación de ayuda: por un lado, la del “refugiado”, asociada al imaginario de la “víctima” y, por el por otro, la “solidaria”, aquella que da una respuesta al “otro vulnerable”. Defendemos que ambas posiciones, así como el marco de la “crisis”, son influidas por una lógica humanitaria. Concluimos que este marco resulta problemático al no abarcar la complejidad de la situación y generar nuevas lógicas discriminatorias.

Humanitarian Capture, Solidarity’s Excess: Affect, Experience, and the Mobile Commons in Migrant Solidarity

“…The scene above accounts for the atmosphere in the city of Barcelona in late 2015, a moment in which the discursive declaration of the “refugee crisis” crystallised in a hegemonic movement of solidarity “with refugees” that was, as illustrated above, also picked up by institutional actors. In past research (Ramírez‐March and Montenegro 2021), my collaborator and I argued that this hegemonic movement was importantly influenced by, even as it contested, the humanitarian governmentality of a declared “crisis”. The argument that I present in this section complements our previous analysis by paying attention to how humanitarian governmentality also relies on the production, circulation and modulation of affects in migrant solidarity.…”

“…Although the core group organising the campaign had a clear plan to be developed during the months in which it was active, the campaign kept an open working group. This group was composed, at different stages, of organisations such as trade unions, bigger NGOs, and longstanding anti‐racist and migrant support groups pertaining to the social movements of the region, thus serving as an articulatory frame in which the very meaning of solidarity with “refugees” was internally contested (Ramírez‐March and Montenegro 2021). The campaign was finalised on 17 February 2017 with a big demonstration under the slogan “Volem Acollir” (“We want to welcome”), claimed by the organiser team as “the biggest in Europe in defence of refugees”.…”