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 …

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

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 …

In the summer of 2015, a wave of solidarity washed across the European continent as 1.3
million refugees arrived. While many recent studies have explored how 'ordinary'men and …

Questioning the depiction of pro-migrant solidarity as unequivocal and transformative, the
article draws attention to two types of ambivalences evident in the solidarity activism in …

Hungary is distinct from most other European countries that have experienced huge
migration flows in the past years, both in terms of the political context and the radical change …

In this paper, we supplement existing scholarship on the interactional process within
volunteering with one that focuses on how inequality between volunteer and recipient of …

In 2015, hundreds of new civil initiatives emerged to provide stopgap help to refugees
arriving in Belgium. This article zooms out from this moment of solidarity and explores the …

This paper contributes to the literature on solidarity mobilizations and the framings of social
and political change in the context of the shrinking welfare state, de-democratization, and …