Five Years of Voluntary Refugee Aid in Germany

Bräuer, Kim

doi:10.12765/cpos-2022-15

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“…Our definition of social aides includes those who work full-time or part-time professionally and those who work voluntarily with others from disadvantaged and victimized groups. Their motivation to work with disadvantaged, victimized groups may vary widely (see Bräuer, 2022). Additionally, they may or may not work in an organizational or institutional context like in charities.…”

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Vicarious comparative victimhood: Introducing a framework to illustrate vicariously experienced inequalities in behaviors toward members of victimized groups.

Hellmann,

Schlechter,

Übergünne-Otte

et al. 2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Building on and extending extant approaches like competitive victimhood, this theoretical contribution introduces a novel framework on vicarious comparative victimhood. When individuals who support others from specific disadvantaged victimized out-groups observe particular unjust treatment of those they support, as compared to other victimized out-groups, they may experience comparative victimhood vicariously. In these cases, social aides supporting discriminated others may identify violations to their firmly held moral beliefs, that is, injunctive, and, arguably to a lesser extent, descriptive antiprejudice norms of treating others equally, regardless of the others’ group membership. We argue in our framework that, depending on the extent to which social aides experience comparative victimhood vicariously, they display different levels of psychological responses that may, at first sight, seem diametrically opposed like frustration or reactance. Which kind of psychological response social aides exhibit largely depends on moderators on the individual level concerning the social aides’ personality and on the context level. Vicarious experiences of comparative victimhood may have severe behavioral consequences for the social aides’ efforts, possibly even leading to discontinuation of their efforts in supporting others from disadvantaged victimized groups. In turn, such consequences may jeopardize societal cohesion and social peace. We outline specific testable research propositions, mainly by exemplifying this concept with references to social aides who work with and support refugees from different regions of origin, with the hopes of stimulating future empirical work on vicarious comparative victimhood.

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Vicarious comparative victimhood: Introducing a framework to illustrate vicariously experienced inequalities in behaviors toward members of victimized groups.

Hellmann,

Schlechter,

Übergünne-Otte

et al. 2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Between redemption and affirmation: German identity in affective narratives of the ‘refugee crisis’

Armbruster

2023

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The German ‘refugee crisis’ produced formidable levels of civil society assistance, involving citizens and locations with no previous experience in refugee support. Grounded in research with citizen volunteers in a rural region in southern Germany conducted at a time when rightwing populism gained strength, this article explores how volunteers reflect on their relations with refugees while negotiating distinctly German identities. Scholarship on volunteering in refugee settings has looked at the emotional aspect of this work largely for its political import. This article expands attention to emotions in volunteering from a form of political practice on the ground to a practice of narrative reasoning. In a close reading of interview-derived narratives as affective practices the relevance of locality, identity and history for refugee reception comes to the fore. Deploying the notions of ‘redemptive’ and ‘affirmative’ Germanness the article shows how volunteers draw on specific historical trajectories to produce moral arguments about the support and incorporation of strangers. This article argues that volunteers’ affective involvement with history and locality needs unpacking if their relations of solidarity are to be understood.

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Five Years of Voluntary Refugee Aid in Germany

Cited by 2 publications

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Vicarious comparative victimhood: Introducing a framework to illustrate vicariously experienced inequalities in behaviors toward members of victimized groups.

Vicarious comparative victimhood: Introducing a framework to illustrate vicariously experienced inequalities in behaviors toward members of victimized groups.

Between redemption and affirmation: German identity in affective narratives of the ‘refugee crisis’

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