Civic and Political Solidarity Practices in Switzerland

Fernández, G G Eva

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73335-7_8

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“…(Tazreiter 2010;Boltanski 1999). This is so because the movement is party to the struggle between the political values of humanism and nationalism (Joas 2013;Hamann and Karakayali 2016;Fleischmann and Steinhilper 2017;Doerr 2017) which clash in relation to the issues of refugees and immigration and shape motivations for solidarity activism (Fernández G. G. 2018). Recent studies confirm that in general political attitudes, generalized social trust and religiosity are important preconditions for solidarity activism (Trenz and Grasso 2018;Lahusen and Grasso 2018a) and show that the class of refugee solidarity activism, compared to solidarity with other groups, is the most polarized by political attitude and generalized social trust (Maggini 2018;Kiess, Lahusen, and Zschache 2018;Kalogeraki 2018).…”

Section: Case Description: the September 2015 Mobilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

High- And Low-Risk Activism: Differential Participation in a Refugee Solidarity Movement

Gundelach¹,

Toubøl²

2019

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

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This article presents a quantitative study of differential participation in low- and high-risk activism in the Danish refugee solidarity movement. Distinguishing between low- and high-risk activism, it shows the fruitfulness of combining what are often considered competing theoretical explanations related to (1) values, (2) microstructures, and (3) emotions. We analyze data from a unique survey of 1,856 respondents recruited via Facebook. The results show that low- and high-risk participation strongly correlate but are influenced by different factors. For low-risk activities, the most important factors are emotional reactions, structural availability, and predispositions in the form of basic human values. For high-risk activity, the important factors are prior history of activism and emotional reaction. Values, microstructures, and emotions interact in relation to participation in both kinds of activism, which points to promising avenues for integrating and developing the theoretical framework of differential participation and recruitment.

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High- And Low-Risk Activism: Differential Participation in a Refugee Solidarity Movement

Gundelach¹,

Toubøl²

2019

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

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“…Recent literature on attitudes toward welfare state redistribution shows that universalistic concerns and political values are key to understanding ranking preferences toward welfare recipients. In previous studies focused on solidarity practices in specific national contexts, we highlighted the importance of political factors and perceptions of deservingness as covariates of solidarity-based behavior in general (Fernández G. G., 2018; Maggini, 2018). Now, we aim at unveiling whether such findings affect beneficiary group types differently and if it can be generalized through a pooled analysis of eight countries covering part of the political, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity of Europe (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom).…”

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Politicization of Solidarity Toward Out-Groups: The Case of Refugees

Maggini

2019

American Behavioral Scientist

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This study aims to explain the solidarity behavior toward a specific needy group that is not part of the national community (refugees) in comparison with vulnerable in-groups (the disabled or the unemployed), taking into account the interplay between individuals’ political orientations and their social dispositions based on the ranking preferences of solidarity beneficiaries. Through a multivariate regression analysis of survey data in eight European countries, we find that respondents’ ranking preferences have a lower impact on solidarity practices toward refugees, which are strongly fostered by progressive political orientations. This means that support for refugees relies on a universalistic conception of solidarity and entails political commitment to both leftist positions on economic issues and to libertarian stances on cultural issues. The latter only affect solidarity actions toward needy out-groups, unveiling the tensions between universalistic-particularistic concerns that are embodied in individual perceptions of deservingness between groups and in the cultural–identitarian dimension of political conflict.

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“…For instance, Dauphinais et al's (1992) study of 'Predictors of Rank-and-File Feminist Activism' concludes that predispositions are vital predictors of active versus non-active feminist activists. These findings are supported by studies of other movements such as Barkan et al's (1995) study of the antihunger movement and Stern et al's (1995Stern et al's ( , 1999 work on environmental movements, and more recently Lahusen and Grasso (2018) published the edited volume Solidarity in Europe, which provides ample evidence of the close relationship between values, attitudes and activism (Fernández, 2018; see also Fernández G. G.'s contribution in chap. 4).…”

Section: The Mediating Role Of Contextsmentioning

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Values, Activism and Changing Attitudes: Individual-Level Moral Development in Social Movement Contexts

Toubøl

Gundelach²

2022

Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies

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Lately, several studies have added crucial knowledge to our understanding of social movement participation by demonstrating its processual nature and how it relates to individual-level movement outcomes. Still, moral factors like values remain understudied. This paper develops a model of relationships between two types of value predispositions—self-transcendence and conformity—and differential participation in humanitarian activities, political protest and civil disobedience and their consequences for attitudinal changes of loss of institutional trust and an altered view of refugee policies. We use cross-sectional survey data from the mobilisation of the Danish refugee solidarity movement, which was revitalised in response to the 2015 refugee crisis. The main finding is that values, in accordance with our theoretical expectations, mainly influence attitudinal outcomes mediated by contexts of different kinds of movement activities. Conformity relates to participation in non-contentious humanitarian support activities that do not relate to any attitudinal outcomes. The non-conform and self-transcendent respondents participate to a higher degree in contentious political protest and civil disobedience, which relates to a loss of trust in the political institutions. The results suggest that heterogeneity of values and contexts of activism within a movement have implications for social movements’ role in the struggles for society’s fundamental morality, individual-level biographical outcomes of activism and movements’ internal processes related to collective identity.

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Civic and Political Solidarity Practices in Switzerland

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

High- And Low-Risk Activism: Differential Participation in a Refugee Solidarity Movement

High- And Low-Risk Activism: Differential Participation in a Refugee Solidarity Movement

Politicization of Solidarity Toward Out-Groups: The Case of Refugees

Values, Activism and Changing Attitudes: Individual-Level Moral Development in Social Movement Contexts

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