The so-called 'Eurozone'and 'migration'crises mark critical moments in Europe's recent
political history and share similarities to the extent that they both have increased political …

Across Europe, hundreds of thousands of volunteers have brought food, clothes, medicines,
and numerous others forms of support to newly arrived refugees. While humanitarian action …

Scholarship has sought to develop theoretical frameworks to set order on the rather
muddled web of actors, interactions and tensions involved in asylum and immigration …

This article aims at discussing the involvement of “humanitarian” actors, stemming from civil
society, in treatment of the issue of refugees' reception. It suggests the concept of “de …

Acknowledgements Page 1 Acknowledgements This book represents the main output of the
research project entitled “PUMOMIG – Public opinion, mobilizations and policies concerning …

This paper inquires the moral and political ambivalences of migrant support located
between contentious politics and humanitarian aid. Comparing Save Me and Seebrücke …

Since the 'refugee crisis' in 2015, civil society across Europe has participated in an
unprecedented wave of support towards migrants. This article focuses on the volunteers …

Humanitarianism is increasingly used to address migration in Europe, from search and
rescue operations at sea to reception on land. Scholars often interpret humanitarianism as a …

In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents felt an urge to provide
help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not as simple and straightforward as it might …

While humanitarian action is often criticised for its focus on immediate needs in the present,
social movements and political activists are usually thought to work towards a different …