Transnational Solidarity, Migration, and the Refugee Crisis: (In)Formal Organising and Political Environments in Greece, Germany, and Denmark

Kostas Kanellopoulos, Deniz Neriman Duru, Ulrike Zschache, Angelos Loukakis, Maria Kousis and Hans-Jörg Trenz
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Kostas Kanellopoulos: University of Crete, Greece
Deniz Neriman Duru: Lund University, Sweden
Ulrike Zschache: University of Siegen, Germany
Angelos Loukakis: University of Crete, Greece
Maria Kousis: University of Crete, Greece
Hans-Jörg Trenz: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Sociological Research Online, 2021, vol. 26, issue 3, 717-738

Abstract: Over the last decade, the unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants into the European Union has posed a significant challenge to Europe, with solidarity being contested at two fronts: first, the question of solidarity with refugees in terms of meeting adequate measures of protection and satisfying their elementary needs; and second, the question of solidarity within the European Union in terms of sharing the costs and burden of hosting these refugees among the member states. One driving factor of these contestations is that the solidarity challenge in facing the ‘refugee crisis’ is taken up differently in transit countries in the South of Europe and destination countries in the North. Wishing to shed light on how national contexts impact transnational solidarity organising, we draw on a fresh set of cross-national evidence from a random sample of 277 transnational solidarity organisations (TSOs) in Greece, Germany, and Denmark. The aim is to illustrate the effects of political opportunities and threats during the 2007–2016 crises period on migration-related solidarity activities organised by TSOs. We will do so through tri-national comparisons tracing migration-related TSO patterns across time. The data used is produced in the context of the TRANSSOL project by a new methodological approach (action organisation analysis) based on hubs-retrieved organisational websites and their subsequent content analysis.

Keywords: Civil society; comparative politics; Denmark; European politics; European Union; far right votes; Germany; Greece; migration; political opportunities; refugee crisis; solidarity organisations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1360780420937030

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