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Decolonial perspectives on charitable spaces of "welcome culture" in Germany
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Abstract
This article focusses on the relationships between volunteers and refugees in the German "welcome culture". I highlight the continuities between historical and colonial notions of feminine charity and contemporary volunteering efforts in support of refugees in Germany. The "welcome culture" is conce... mehr
This article focusses on the relationships between volunteers and refugees in the German "welcome culture". I highlight the continuities between historical and colonial notions of feminine charity and contemporary volunteering efforts in support of refugees in Germany. The "welcome culture" is conceived here as a charitable space that is historically sedimented by specific understandings of gender, racial and class difference. In particular, the difference between the modern emancipated female volunteer and the female oppressed refugee plays a central role. The question of female self-determination, then, becomes an important social arena in the German "welcome culture", through which the rate and terms of participation of refugees in social life are negotiated. Thus I draw on decolonial thought as well as theoretical insights from post-development scholarship and critical studies of humanitarianism in order to consider the multitemporal and transnational character of current "welcome culture" as well as to gain a better understanding of the entailed power relations. These are more contingent than might first appear. Presenting findings from my ongoing fieldwork I conclude that the notion of "welcome culture" allows for the emergence of new forms of sociality.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Flüchtling; Flüchtlingspolitik; ausländischer Arbeitnehmer; Freiwilligkeit; Kolonialismus; politische Kultur; Emotionalität; bürgerschaftliches Engagement; Sozialität; Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Sozialwesen, Sozialplanung, Sozialarbeit, Sozialpädagogik
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Willkommenskultur
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 38-48
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 5 (2017) 3
Heftthema
Perspectives on the European border regime: mobilization, contestation, and the role of civil society
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)