Krise og kontinuitet i mottak av flyktninger i Norden

Local responses to hostility to new asylum seeker centres in Norway

“…Across Europe, scholars have identified a variety of locally articulated meanings related to individuals’ motivations to volunteer and to welcome refugees during the “refugee crisis.” For example, consider references by several scholars (e.g. Rea et al, 2019) to the events during 2015 as a refugee “reception” crisis owing to unpreparedness and lack of responsiveness not only by state actors but also by established humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross to receive and help the asylum seekers (Bygnes, 2017; Bygnes & Karlsen, 2017; Jumbert, 2020). It is exactly this lack of action by formal actors that was cited as the major motivation for the massive mobilization of civil society witnessed during this period, even among individuals with no prior history of volunteering (Karakayali & Kleist, 2015).…”

“…In response to Fleischer’s (2011) call to explore the meaning and nature of volunteering in local contexts, the rationale behind our research participants’ commitment in the overall data set echoes insights from across Europe, such as the unpreparedness and lack of responsiveness by state actors and established NGOs in their reception of asylum seekers (Bygnes, 2017; Bygnes & Karlsen, 2017; Jumbert, 2020; Rea et al, 2019), as well as reflecting and solidarity, responsibility and care (Kemp, 2019; Vandevoort & Verschraegen, 2017). Nevertheless, these insights contribute to this conversation by empirically substantiating how volunteering is deployed as a strategy for contesting place representations attributed to local residents that are not aligned with their own self‐identification.…”