Movements, transnational welfare, and alt-humanitarianism

Our research examined both local and transnational civil society responses to the migration crisis and advanced our understanding of how civil society actors engaged in collective action to counter the social boundaries of the nation-state system in relation to migration and welfare, to forge new meanings and practices of wellbeing and care.

Dr Armine Ishkanian

Concluded project in the Movements, Policy and the Politics of Inequality theme within the Politics of Inequality research programme

This research examines the responses of civil society organisations to contemporary migration in Greece. The objective is to analyse the ways in which civil society actions, from the formal (e.g., NGOs) to the informal (solidarity initiatives), have shaped the understandings, politics, and practices of transnational solidarity. The research contributes to policy debates around civil society action and migration, humanitarianism, solidarity, and the emergence of alternative practices of wellbeing and care.

Dr Armine Ishkanian
Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme and Associate Professor in Social Policy

Dr Isabel Shutes
Associate Professor in Social Policy, 杏吧论坛

Christina Psarra
Researcher and General Director of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF Greece)

Ishkanian, Armine and Shutes, Isabel (2021) .Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

Keshk, M., Harrison, R., Kizito, W. Psarra, C. , Owiti, P., Timire, C., Camacho, M., De Maio, G., Safwat, H. Matboly, A., and R. Van den Bergh (2021) , International Health, Volume 13, Issue 2, March, Pages 89–97

Psarra, Christina. (2017) , The New Humanitarian

Shutes, Isabel and Ishkanian, Armine (2021) Transnational welfare within and beyond the nation-state: civil society responses to the migration crisis in Greece. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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