Soutien politique et soutien humanitaire. Retour sur les solidarités citoyennes avec les réfugié·e·s en Belgique

Vertongen, Youri Lou

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“…Among our case studies, we observed actions contextually motivated by humanitarian concerns, by criticism specifically targeting the institutional system of reception as well as migration politics more broadly -and their effect in producing "illegal" migrants (De Genova 2002) -and by the will to promote a more inclusive form of citizenship. These three frames of action often overlapped in most of the sites where we conducted research, becoming porous categories (Vertongen 2018). Moreover, they interact with other factors (namely network dynamics) and additional rationales that we will illustrate in the following sections.…”

Section: Pro-migrant Mobilization Actions -Frames Of Mobilizationmentioning

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The Refugee Reception Crisis : Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations

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Mazzola

Martiniello

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Les députés européens et leur rôle. Sociologie interprétative des pratiques parlementaires. Julien Navarro. 2009. The future of mutual recognition in criminal matters in the European Union/L'avenir de la reconnaissance mutuelle en matière pénale dans l'Union européenne. Ed. Gisèle Vernimmen-Van Tiggelen, Laura Surano and Anne Weyembergh. 2009. Sophie Heine, Une gauche contre l'Europe? Les critiques radicales et altermondialistes contre l'Union européenne Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) as part of the framework programme Belgian Research Action Through Interdisciplinary Networks (BRAIN-be, contract nr. BR/175/A5/PUMOMIG). We are grateful to BELSPO for providing financial support to our research and dissemination activities, and for funding the publication of this book in open access. We wish to thank all research participants in Belgium and Europe, including migrants and non-migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented people, activists, volunteers, members of organizations, institutions and municipalities. We also thank the experts who accepted to review this manuscript and provided us with important insights to improve some of its sections.

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Section: Pro-migrant Mobilization Actions -Frames Of Mobilizationmentioning

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The Refugee Reception Crisis : Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations

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Martiniello

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“…My 'non-presence' during 2015 provided a certain (emotional) distance to the subject under study and I first came to know Maximilian Park through narra- De Praetere, 2016;Vertongen, 2018). Additionally, in 2017 and 2019, insights were gained through participatory and non-participatory observation in the park and with the Platform.…”

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Urban Arrival Infrastructures between Political and Humanitarian Support: The ‘Refugee Welcome’ Mo(ve)ment Revisited

Saltiel

2020

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<p>Maximilian Park in Brussels was the site of a makeshift refugee camp for three months in 2015 when the institutional reception system was unable to provide shelter for newly arriving asylum seekers. Local volunteers stepped in, formed a civic initiative and organized a reception area under the banner ‘Refugees Welcome!’ The civic platform which emerged claimed and asserted (existing) rights for one specific group, asylum seekers, exclusively, and thus did not challenge the exclusive migration regime nor demand transformation. While such a humanitarian approach risks reproducing the exclusive border regime and the inequalities it engenders, political<em> </em>support is a disturbing rupture in the name of equality that resists normative classifications and inaugurates transformation. This article maps out the complex dialectical interrelation between political and humanitarian support and argues that political implications can only be understood through longer-term research, emphasizing processes of transformation that have resulted from these moments of disruption. Therefore, the article revisits Maximilian Park two and four years after the camp and reveals how the humanitarian approach chosen in the camp sustainably transformed the park, adding arrival infrastructures beyond the institutional, and had an impact on how refugees were dealt with and represented. Concluding, the article suggests the notion of ‘solidary humanitarianism’ that providing supplies, meeting acute existential needs and simultaneously articulating political claims that demand structural transformation: the right to shelter, basic supply, presence, and movement for all in the city.</p>

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“…While encounters with the "other" might lead to reflecting on one's own favorable circumstances and privileges, it often fails to challenge the mechanisms, structures, and institutions that produce and stabilize exclusion and oppression and thereby generate disparities (Wilson, 2017). Following these considerations, there has been a recent debate (especially since 2015) on the disruptive and transformative potential of migrant and refugee support and whether it is politicizing and subversive or merely reproducing the status quo through a humanitarian approach (see Rygiel, 2011Rygiel, , 2012van Dyk and Misbach, 2016;Fleischmann and Steinhilper, 2017;Frykman and Mäkelä, 2019; specifically for the case of Plateforme Citoyenne and migrant support in Brussels, see Depraetere and Oosterlynck, 2017;Vertongen, 2018;Lafaut and Coene, 2019;Vandervoordt, 2019;Saltiel, 2020). So far, this discussion, too, is entirely based on public discourse.…”

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Strangers at Home? Informal Hosting of Undocumented Migrants and the Ambivalences of Encounter, Compassion, and Care in the Private Sphere

Saltiel

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Through a feminist care ethics lens, this paper explores the particular caring relations of Hébergement, an informal hosting initiative for transitory undocumented migrants in Brussels. It elaborates on how the intimate, private setting of hosting at home affects a caring-with relationship. Hosting and being hosted significantly differs from other forms of shelter and migrant (or homeless) support. There is no script for this particular social constellation. Hosting requires trust and a great deal of physical and emotional labor of all involved and often leads to exhaustion. Being together in and sharing the intimate space of the home entails a continuous negotiation of—sometimes conflicting—needs (for space, intimacy, distance, self-care, etc.) of all at home. The informal caring arrangements and the resulting relations of Hébergement are ambivalent and are understood as yet another expression of the lack of sufficient and adequate caring resources on a societal level (‘care crisis’). With its fundamentally relational approach, feminist care ethics unravel the uneven structures that permeate and define both the practice of care and caring relations. Thereby, it challenges the structural organization of care in capitalism that is exclusive, racialized, inherently feminized, domesticized, privatized, and individualized and envisions an alternative, more just social organization of care—in a caring-with society. Drawing on narrative interviews, the paper explores how strangers encounter each other ‘at home’, how they care-with each other, and how they address the potentials, ambivalences, and limits of hosting and caring-with strangers at home.

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Soutien politique et soutien humanitaire. Retour sur les solidarités citoyennes avec les réfugié·e·s en Belgique

Cited by 8 publications

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The Refugee Reception Crisis : Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations

The Refugee Reception Crisis : Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations

Urban Arrival Infrastructures between Political and Humanitarian Support: The ‘Refugee Welcome’ Mo(ve)ment Revisited

Strangers at Home? Informal Hosting of Undocumented Migrants and the Ambivalences of Encounter, Compassion, and Care in the Private Sphere

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