Welcoming Acts Temporality and Aff ect among Volunteer Humanitarians in the UK and USA

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dc.contributor.authorHumphris, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorYarris, Kristin
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-07T01:45:54Z
dc.date.available2022-08-07T01:45:54Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description15 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article compares local volunteer mobilizations offering welcome to forced migrants in the USA (Oregon) and UK (Yorkshire). We contribute to literature on volunteer-based humanitarianism by attending to the importance of affect and temporality in the politics of welcoming acts, presenting the notion of “affective arcs.” While extant literature argues that volunteers become increasingly contestational, we identify a countertendency as volunteers move from outrage toward pragmatism. Through long-term ethnographic engagement, we argue that affective arcs reveal a particular understanding of “the political” and an underlying belief in a fair nation state that has not reckoned with colonial legacies in migration governance. By carefully tracing affective arcs of volunteer humanitarian acts, this article offers original insights into the constrained political possibilities of these local forms of welcome.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHumphris, R., & Yarris, K. E. (2022). Welcoming Acts, Migration and Society, 5(1), 75-89. Retrieved Aug 7, 2022, from https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/migration-and-society/5/1/arms050107.xmlen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27483
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBerghahn Journalsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMigration and Society: Advances in Research;5
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectaffecten_US
dc.subjectasylumen_US
dc.subjectethonographyen_US
dc.subjecthumanitarianismen_US
dc.subjectsolidarityen_US
dc.subjecttemporalityen_US
dc.subjectvolunteersen_US
dc.titleWelcoming Acts Temporality and Aff ect among Volunteer Humanitarians in the UK and USAen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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