This study aims to analyse the experiences and motivations of volunteers who supported
Ukrainian refugees who fled to Poland. Our study was conducted among 196 volunteers in …

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 …

Volunteering work has always played a key role in dealing with crises around the world.
Understanding the motivations behind volunteering during a crisis could not only explain …

This paper contributes to critical and popular geopolitics by exploring the production of BBC
Radio 4's reportage on Europe's migration 'crisis'. It draws on original interviews conducted …

Resettlement programmes are considered one solution to displacement following the so-
called refugee crisis. Private or community-based sponsorship models enable volunteer …

Compassion has been theorized as a desirable prosocial emotion due to its potential to
transcend arbitrary boundaries (eg, race, physical distance) and motivate us to alleviate the …

From the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing measures
introduced created a series of social problems and needs that were partially addressed in …

Resettlement of refugees in third countries has seen a growing intervention by various civil
society actors in the last few years, starting from the Canadian experience. Also in Europe …

This article analyses the role of affect and emotions in Finland's first large-scale anti-
deportation protest, the 2017 Right to Live protest in Helsinki. Despite deportation protests …

During the 2015 “summer of welcome”, the mass arrival of refugees to Germany triggered
widely publicised acts of pro-refugee solidarity among citizens. To date, scholarship has …