Changing landscapes of urban citizenship: Southern Europe in times of crisis

Zavos, Alexandra; Koutrolikou, Penny; Siatitsa, Dimitra

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“…All European countries have experienced a cutting down of welfare services, which is partly explained by the regimes of austerity imposed by the economic and financial crisis. As a consequence, the relationship between civil society and government has become more confrontational in many respects (Federico and Lahusen, 2018;Zavos et al, 2019). In tandem with decreases in state support (Kousis et al 2020), there has been an increase in the demands and numbers of beneficiaries.…”

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Transnational Solidarity, Migration, and the Refugee Crisis: (In)Formal Organising and Political Environments in Greece, Germany, and Denmark

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Sociological Research Online

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Over the last decade, the unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants into the European Union has posed a significant challenge to Europe, with solidarity being contested at two fronts: first, the question of solidarity with refugees in terms of meeting adequate measures of protection and satisfying their elementary needs; and second, the question of solidarity within the European Union in terms of sharing the costs and burden of hosting these refugees among the member states. One driving factor of these contestations is that the solidarity challenge in facing the ‘refugee crisis’ is taken up differently in transit countries in the South of Europe and destination countries in the North. Wishing to shed light on how national contexts impact transnational solidarity organising, we draw on a fresh set of cross-national evidence from a random sample of 277 transnational solidarity organisations (TSOs) in Greece, Germany, and Denmark. The aim is to illustrate the effects of political opportunities and threats during the 2007–2016 crises period on migration-related solidarity activities organised by TSOs. We will do so through tri-national comparisons tracing the patterns in which migration-related TSOs appear through time. The data used is produced in the context of the TRANSSOL project by a new methodological approach (action organisation analysis) based on hubs-retrieved organisational websites and their subsequent content analysis.

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Transnational Solidarity, Migration, and the Refugee Crisis: (In)Formal Organising and Political Environments in Greece, Germany, and Denmark

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Zschache

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“…If we tried to provide a rough typology of the actors who were and, in some cases, still are present in the broad field of '"refugee crisis" management,' we could distinguish several types of actors, from representatives of IOs and EU agencies to activists and volunteers in local assemblies and community kitchens (Parsanoglou, 2020a). A lot has been written (Oikonomakis, 2018;Papataxiarchis, 2016b;Parsanoglou & Philipp, 2018;Rakopoulos, 2014;Rozakou, 2016;Zavos et al, 2017), particularly on the grassroots movements and solidarity structures that were formed within the financial/economic crisis in Greece and constituted the knowledge base for the establishment of robust infrastructures of solidarity (Schilliger, 2020) towards the asylum seekers and refugees. Solidarity that can also be seen as a 'bottom-up governmentality' that involves both 'formal charity, NGOs, or humanitarian assistance,' but also 'grassroots organisations, a variety of local solidarity initiatives, and even transnational movements' (Mantanika & Arapoglou Chap.…”

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Crisis Upon Crisis: Theoretical and Political Reflections on Greece’s Response to the ‘Refugee Crisis’

Parsanoglou

2022

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In this chapter, I reflect upon the theoretical and political implications of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ both in terms of governance and sovereignty. The analysis that follows is based on empirical material, namely in-depth semi-structured interviews with different relevant stakeholders, i.e. representatives of authorities, such as the former Ministry of Migration Policy and the Asylum Service, representatives of EU agencies, such as Frontex and DG ECHO, as well as volunteers and activists from Greece and other countries, like Turkey, Spain and the United States of America. I focus on pre-existing and emerging internal contradictions between different actors who have been dealing with refugees. In other words, I try to capture the contingent character of new geographies of control that occurred with the establishment of the ‘hotspot approach,’ in correlation with the shifts in state sovereignty as it has been repositioned through the active involvement of non-state actors – from non-governmental organisations to international organisations and EU agencies – in the refugee/migration management.

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“…Evident is a tension with notions of "urban citizenship" (see Zavos et al 2017). Here, both activists as well as irregularised migrants through their "acts of citizenship" (Isin and Nielsen 2013) seek to enact forms of belonging grounded on Foucault's redefinition of citizenship as one engendered by a condition of common governance, and based on solidarity and a striving for justice (Atac ß et al 2016:531).…”

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“We are here to stay” vs. “Europe’s best hotel”: Hamburg and Athens as Geographies of Solidarity

Fischer

Jørgensen

2020

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Using a theoretical framework conceptualising mobility regimes, solidarity, as well as scales and "sanctuary/solidarity cities", this article examines notions of locally scaled solidarity by looking at Hamburg and Athens. We undertake comparisons on three dimensions. First, between the historical and institutional context of migration in Germany and Greece. Second, between urban movements in Hamburg and Athens. Finally, between the balance sheet of Seebr€ ucke Hamburg and the Solidarity Cities Initiative of Athens. We contend that different migrant mobilities, as well as the solidarity movements they bring forth, structure different geographies of solidarity. We argue that movements in Hamburg were relatively more successful in renegotiating restrictive migration regimes on the local scale than their counterparts in Athens. We view these differences as prefigured by different types of migrant mobility-arrival in Hamburg, transit in Athens-in the context of a European bordering geography characterised by asymmetrical power relations.

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Changing landscapes of urban citizenship: Southern Europe in times of crisis

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Transnational Solidarity, Migration, and the Refugee Crisis: (In)Formal Organising and Political Environments in Greece, Germany, and Denmark

Transnational Solidarity, Migration, and the Refugee Crisis: (In)Formal Organising and Political Environments in Greece, Germany, and Denmark

Crisis Upon Crisis: Theoretical and Political Reflections on Greece’s Response to the ‘Refugee Crisis’

“We are here to stay” vs. “Europe’s best hotel”: Hamburg and Athens as Geographies of Solidarity

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