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The Shifting Landscape of Pro-Refugee Communities in Germany After 2015
Clara van den Berg examines the lasting impacts of the 2015/16 pro-refugee mobilization in Germany, where over a million asylum seekers arrived and millions of volunteers provided support. Focusing on the evolution of civic action communities, the book explores the decline in volunteer activities, the role of local brokers, and factors influencing the sustainability of pro-refugee networks. Using case studies from German cities, van den Berg investigates how resources, strategies, and social capital shaped community building and cooperation among diverse actors. This research contributes to civil society literature by analyzing the long-term effects of mobilization on social structures and connections. Intended for academics, policymakers, and social scientists, the book provides insights into civic engagement, migration, and community resilience.
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Research Question and Design -- Overview of Contributions -- The Pro-Refugee Mobilization of 2015/16 -- Research on Mobilization Effects in Today's Civic Landscape -- Book Outline -- Theoretical Framework -- Local Civic Action Communities -- Distinguishing local civic action from social movement communities -- Civil Society Literature on Mobilization Effects -- Effects of heightened mobilization in social movement studies -- Networking after heightened mobilization in voluntarism and non-profit studies -- Factors Driving Networking, Interaction, and Cooperation -- Political opportunity structures -- Resources and capacity -- Ideology and culture -- Conclusion -- Data and Methods -- Overview -- Systematic Case Selection and Case Description -- Design of case selection -- Process of case selection -- The final case selection -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Interview phases -- Interview guide -- Collection of documents -- Analysis -- Ethical Considerations -- Conclusion -- Did it Stick? Where Pro-Refugee Communities did and did not Develop -- Lauda: The Development and Survival of a Pro-Refugee Community -- Refugee support and interaction dynamics in 2015/16 -- Exploring the development of the pro-refugee community (2017-2019) -- Stress-test: The pro-refugee community during the pandemic (2020-2022) -- Insight into the network structure -- The pro-refugee community in Lauda prevailed -- Loburg: The Development and Survival of a Pro-Refugee Community -- Refugee support and interaction dynamics in 2015/16 -- The evolution of the strengthened network (2017-2019) -- Stress-test: The pro-refugee community during the pandemic (2020-2022) -- Insights into the network structure -- The pro-refugee community in Loburg prevailed.
Altenau: Missed Opportunities for Creating a Pro-Refugee Community -- The heightened mobilization and networking efforts -- Activities and enduring interactions (2017-2019) -- Insights into the network structure -- Lost momentum: Altenau's struggle with growing a pro-refugee community -- Neheim: Missed Opportunities for Creating a Pro-Refugee Community -- The heightened mobilization and networking efforts -- Activities and interaction ceased after the heightened mobilization -- Insights into the network structure -- Lost momentum: Neheims's struggle with growing a pro-refugee community -- Conclusion -- Opportunities for Interaction and the Role of Brokers -- Theoretical Framework: Local Brokers and Sustained Interaction -- Empirical Analysis -- Broker 1: Asylum with Us (Lauda) -- Brokers 2 and 3: Unified and In Action (Loburg) -- Diversifying interaction opportunities -- Maintaining the core community -- Policy advocacy on migration and asylum issues -- Broadening the issue -- Conclusion -- Being Different. How Differences in Resources, Strategy, and Culture Challenge Community Building -- Theoretical Framework: Resources, Strategies, and Cultures of Interaction -- Differences in resource power -- Differences in networking strategies -- Differences in interaction cultures -- Empirical Analysis -- Altenau -- Resource power -- Networking strategies -- Interaction culture -- Neheim -- Differences in resource power -- Differences in networking strategies -- Diverging interaction cultures -- Lauda -- Loburg -- Conclusion -- Linking Social Capital as a Resource for Co-production and Community Building -- Theoretical Framework: Linking Social Capital -- Empirical Analysis -- Lauda: Producing Linking Social Capital Against the Odds -- Phase 1: Suspicion and Frustration -- Phase II: Mediation -- Phase III: Cooperation.
Altenau: A failed Opportunity to Produce Linking Social Capital -- Phase I: Mutual Appreciation -- Phase II: Resentment -- Phase III: Escalation and Resignation -- Civil society -- state dynamics in Neheim and Loburg -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Overview -- Conceptual and Empirical Contributions -- Local civic action communities -- The pro-refugee mobilization of 2015/16 -- Local manifestation of refugee support and advocacy -- Structural changes in civil society -- Political and Societal Implications -- Democracy promotion -- Migration policy -- Bibliography.
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