‘Threatened Solidarities’. Mobilising discourses and practices in refugee aid (F08*)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 170320015

The project takes a diachronic approach to the self-image and identity narrative of German society as a threatened system of order in the aftermath of the "refugee crisis". The project analyses how actors in refugee aid programs have dealt with the threats of nationalism and racism. In particular, it focuses on the interplay between protests and aid projects as places of mobilization, on the operationalization of the ideal of solidarity in everyday life, and on the effects of experiences of success and failure on re-ordering.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 923: Threatened Orders
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Monique Scheer, since 7/2019