Helfen und Reziprozität. Freiwilliges Engagement für Geflüchtete im ländlichen Raum

Wagner, Greta

doi:10.1515/zfsoz-2019-0017

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“…At the same time, however, this bears the danger that ‘in the mode of empathy an unequal and hierarchical relationship between the compassionate and the suffering is manifested’ (Bargetz, 2019: 368), in which the feelings of the compassionate person are the focus and suffering is only their object. Compassion then can also act as an emotional substitute for longer-term commitment (Wagner, 2019). The depiction of a dead baby kangaroo as a victim of Australian bushfires may trigger spontaneous feelings of sadness and anger and possibly lead to the donation of a sum of money to environmental protection organizations, but it can also be a substitute for lasting conservation activities.…”

Section: Mapping Climate Emotionsmentioning

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Climate emotions and emotional climates: The emotional map of ecological crises and the blind spots on our sociological landscapes

Neckel

Hasenfratz

2021

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The public debate on climate change and environmental destruction belongs to those social conflicts that are carried out with an especially great emotional intension. In these disputes, the facet of emotions ranges from negative feelings such as shame, guilt and grief, to positive ones such as hope and compassion. In our paper, we put a focus on these feelings, drawing a conceptual map of emotions triggered by ecological crises. In doing so, our aim is to highlight the ambivalences of the intense emotionality of climate change and its societal effects. The great attention and the reflexivity accorded to ‘climate emotions’, however, should not obscure the view towards those emotional dynamics that are responsible for concealing and denying ecological problems. Based on ethnographic and other empirical studies from social sciences we outline that it is precisely these little-illuminated aspects of emotional re-framing and public emotional silence, which often turn out to be particularly consequential moments in politics. Hence, the emotional motives behind the scene should not go unnoticed in sociological research on emotions within the ecological crises.

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Section: Mapping Climate Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate emotions and emotional climates: The emotional map of ecological crises and the blind spots on our sociological landscapes

Neckel

Hasenfratz

2021

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“…For rural areas, empirical studies on social connections highlighted the greater social proximity, which facilitates orientation and enables a high number of direct contacts (Micksch and Schwier, 2000 ; Schader, 2011 ; Gruber, 2013 ). There is a higher potential for community and social security, and a high degree of self-organization in associations and of volunteering, which present opportunities for social participation of newcomers and facilitate integration processes (Nadler et al, 2010 ; Arora-Jonsson, 2017 ; Priemer et al, 2017 ; Tesch-Römer et al, 2017 ; Wagner, 2019 ). On the other hand, however, rural societies are often associated with limited diversity, an implicit understanding of homogeneity and a rather high degree of social control, which could result in strong pressure to assimilate (Rösch et al, 2020 ).…”

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Is Social Contact With the Resident Population a Prerequisite of Well-Being and Place Attachment? The Case of Refugees in Rural Regions of Germany

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Due to dispersal policies applied in many European countries, such as Germany, rural regions are important arrival regions for asylum seekers and refugees. For German policy makers, who have faced a large number of immigrants since 2015, it is crucial that asylum seekers and refugees stay in those rural regions and benefit the development of those areas. This paper addresses the quality and quantity of social contact between refugees and resident populations as a prerequisite for integration and long-term migration-development effects from a social geographical perspective. Drawing from survey data and qualitative interviews, we examine expectations, perceptions and experiences of everyday encounters and social relationships in neighborhoods in small rural towns and villages from the perspective of both local residents and refugees. Our results support arguments from research literature for faster social inclusion in rural areas due to greater nearness, but also obstacles toward the integration of foreigners due to a higher homogeneity of rural neighborhoods and only few experiences of positive everyday contact with foreigners among rural residents. The interviewed refugees display a high level of reflexivity regarding their new neighborhood and how they might be seen by rural residents. Their experiences encompass various forms of social relationships, while social bridges are crucial, ranging from serendipitous encounters and functional interactions to connections based on mutual interest around family issues or cultural aspects. Openness and tolerance from at least some parts of the local population can help immigrants to feel at home, and support staying aspirations, while simultaneously evoking wider social change. A peculiarity of rural areas is the intersectionality with further challenges related to structural changes, encompassing, for instance, socio-demographic and economic restructuring. However, social interactions and opportunities for encounters are only one factor in the development of long-term settlement. More in-depth research is needed to consider the interrelations of both structural contexts and complex and changing needs for personal development in the future, also from an intergenerational perspective.

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“…Migration sagen (vgl. Wagner 2019Wagner , 2019a. Augenscheinlich wurde dies in der schieren Masse an Sach-, Kleider-und Geldspenden, mit denen viele Bewohner*innen Leipzigs auf den unerwartet raschen Zuzug zahlreicher Geflüchteter reagierten -dokumentiert in den bereits zitierten Interviewpassagen und von mir selbst mehrfach erfahren, so zum Beispiel am Tag der offenen Tür in einer interimsmäßigen Landeserstaufnahmeeinrichtung am südlichen Rand der Stadt: Beim Betreten des Hauptgebäudes der Einrichtung ballten sich sogleich die Menschen.…”

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Schäfer

2022

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Am Beispiel von Leipzig zeigt Philipp Schäfer, dass die Allgegenwärtigkeit des Provisorischen im langen Sommer der Migration 2015 nicht das Ergebnis einer jähen Krise war, sondern das Resultat langjähriger Auseinandersetzungen rund um Fragen des Umgangs mit Geflüchteten vor Ort. Anhand von zahlreichen Interviews, Beobachtungen und politischen Dokumenten führt seine soziologische Untersuchung vor Augen, wie die lokale Regierung von Migration Vorläufigkeit institutionalisierte und es so erlaubte, Geflüchtete räumlich, zeitlich und moralisch auf Distanz zu halten. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Helfen und Reziprozität. Freiwilliges Engagement für Geflüchtete im ländlichen Raum

Cited by 10 publications

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Climate emotions and emotional climates: The emotional map of ecological crises and the blind spots on our sociological landscapes

Climate emotions and emotional climates: The emotional map of ecological crises and the blind spots on our sociological landscapes

Is Social Contact With the Resident Population a Prerequisite of Well-Being and Place Attachment? The Case of Refugees in Rural Regions of Germany

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