Although the Czech Republic (CR) is not a favorite destination nor even a transit country for migrants through Europe, the refugee crisis has materialized into a strict state policy of rejection. The CR rejects proposals for European solutions and detains and imprisons immigrants, most of whom are inadvertently arrived there. This preliminary refusal strategy is peculiar to both the political and media spheres (and public opinion) and is described in the opening sections of this work. However, the CR, is also a country in which the tally of immigrants is less than the number of Czechs citizens traveling beyond their national borders to help refugees congregating along the “Balkan Route”, where they frequently outnumber volunteers from other countries. This paper goes on to describe the development of these grassroots Czech volunteer organizations and activities in 2015. From the beginning it was characterized by spontaneity and a lack of hierarchy, with the Internet and social media playing a vital role during mobilization and organization. The methodological section defines how this sample was analyzed and the manner in which it was dealt. Section five summarizes the most important findings of the case study: (1) the results of a questionnaire survey among volunteers, (2) the results of a qualitative content analysis of their communication in social networks. Besides basic mapping steps (features of volunteer’s participation), the analysis attempts to capture motivations for volunteer’s participation. Comparison with selected motivation typologies emphasizes the protective (later the normative) motivation, on which the hypotheses are based regarding the dispute about the national identity of volunteering as an ideological, and therefore foreseeable, dispute.
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From Vulnerability to Trust
Personal Encounters and Bordering Processes in the British Refugees Welcome Movement
Pierre Monforte and Gaja Maestri
—defined as charity or humanitarian volunteers 1 —make sense of their encounters with refugees. Looking at the transformative dimension of these encounters ( Darling and Wilson 2016 ), we analyze how volunteers relate to government-led discourses and practices
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2022
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The Case of Germany
Civil Society and Civic Activism in the Pandemic
Susann Worschech
based on the German Survey on Volunteering that is conducted and published on a five-year basis by the German Centre for Gerontology on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth. 5 In a second step, I
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2021
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Images of Care, Boundaries of the State
Volunteering and Civil Society in Czech Health Care
Rosie Read
This article examines how boundaries of the state are negotiated and projected in Czech health care volunteering. Hospital regimes and the professional care provided by doctors and nurses are widely imagined as a domain of intensified state authority, a legacy of state socialism. I explore attempts by NGO actors, hospitals, and local government officials involved in three Czech volunteer programs to create alternative, non-medicalized forms of patient care as civil society, thereby reproducing the boundary between state and non-state that characterized civil society discourses of the 1990s in the region. Yet unlike those discourses and the anthropological analyses they have informed, this process of boundary making does not constitute the state and civil society as inevitably antagonistic or competitive entities.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Dec 2014
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- 90–106 (17 total)
Welcoming Acts
Temporality and Affect among Volunteer Humanitarians in the UK and USA
Rachel Humphris and Kristin Elizabeth Yarris
In this article, we compare local mobilizations of volunteers working through civic organizations to welcome asylum seekers in the USA (Oregon) and the UK (Yorkshire). Contributing to extant literature on “volunteer humanitarians” ( Sandri 2018
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- 75–89 (15 total)
Beyond the Glittering Golden Buddha Statues
Difference and Self-transformation through Buddhist Volunteer Tourism in Thailand
Brooke Schedneck
never be able to fully understand the meaning behind each of these details. But others feel lucky that they will be able to consider these deeper meanings by joining a Buddhist community and volunteering their time to teach English. Buddhist travel and
Giving Aid Inside the Home
Humanitarian House Visits, Performative Refugeehood, and Social Control of Syrians in Jordan
Ann-Christin Wagner
volunteering as an interpreter for VIVA, 1 a grassroots Evangelical organization, that regularly delivered aid to Syrians’ houses. This day, I was part of a team of Europeans distributing second-hand clothes and food packages. After another one of these visits
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- 36–50 (15 total)
War and Memory
The Israeli Communist Commemoration of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1986
Amir Locker-Biletzki
Eastern Europe, accompanied by rabid anti-Semitism, affected the lives of Jews in various ways. Some, who held leftist and anti-Fascist views, went to Spain. Among them were volunteers from Palestine, most of whom fought in the ranks of the International
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- 61–79 (19 total)
“Who Were You?”
Temporality and Intergenerational Empathy in Community Girlhood Studies
Sarah Winstanley and Alexe Bernier
women's lived experience and recognizes them as experts in their own lives ( Hurlock 2010 ; Women's Centre of Calgary 2020 ). The WCC is thus run primarily by volunteers who work collaboratively as peers with paid staff in an attempt to challenge expert
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- 35–51 (17 total)
Editorial Introduction
The Cases of Germany and the United Kingdom
Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen
volunteer organizations is explored. In the UK study, by analyzing quantitative data pertaining to (about the determinants of) different categories of mutual aid groups (MAGs) interpretations are made concerning resilience, agility, and civic activist
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- 143–144 (2 total)