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Beyond crisis management? The role of Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity in humanitarian aid: the case of Lesvos

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  • Hanne Haaland
  • Hege Wallevik

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In recent years, what has been called citizen initiatives for global solidarity (CIGS) have grown considerably in numbers across Europe and beyond. Lately, CIGS have also received attention as they are responding to humanitarian crisis across the world. In Europe during 2015, citizens were heavily involved in catering for incoming refugees, putting up loosely organised voluntary-based initiatives. CIGS popped up in places such as Lesvos, which is the focus of our research. Humanitarian CIGS are quick in their response to needs on the ground, are quickly governed by rules and regulations as well as overall ideas about crisis management, and come to work either with or in opposition to other actors. We examine two examples of CIGS positioned at the margins of the humanitarian aid machinery in Lesvos. Through a lens of power and resistance, we discuss how they resisted paradigmatic ideas of crisis management and instead called for a different interpretation of how to think about and do crisis management.

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  • Hanne Haaland & Hege Wallevik, 2019. "Beyond crisis management? The role of Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity in humanitarian aid: the case of Lesvos," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(10), pages 1869-1883, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:40:y:2019:i:10:p:1869-1883
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1656060
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    1. Hanrieder, Tine & Galesne, Claire, 2021. "Domestic humanitarianism: the Mission France of Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 42(8), pages 1715-1732.

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