The introduction to this collection brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and
grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded …

Controversy over immigration and integration intensified in German news media following
Chancellor Merkel's response to the refugee crisis of 2015. Using multidimensional scaling …

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 …

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 …

Migrants' access to the national territory is filtered through categorisation processes that
entangle the legal–administrative statuses produced by immigration controls with stratified …

While European governments have pursued illegalized migrants for decades, the
techniques through which they do so have taken a more radical turn since 2015. Focusing …

The paradoxical merger of humanitarian care and securitization imperatives can be seen not
only at external and externalized borders, but also at the internal borders in the Netherlands …

This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of
social movements and a study of discourses on the European “refugee crisis”, by leading …

Finding formal and stable employment in the local economy is a crucial step in the
integration of refugees. In highly regulated high-income countries, multiple actors are …

Six years after the arrival of about 900.000 asylum seekers in Germany, it is time for a critical
review of Germany's famous 'welcome culture'. Much of the initial euphoria in summer and …