Abstract
AbstractThe concluding chapter shifts attention to the diverging socio-economic and political contexts of transnational solidarity organisations from eight European countries, ranging from a severe impact of the Eurozone and migration policy crisis to experiences less affected by recent crises but more vigorously shaped by policy-driven aggravations due to austerity measures, welfare retrenchments and immigration restrictions. The conclusions also underline the considerable number of similarities between solidarity activities and discourses since activists everywhere are concerned about increasing grievances and social problems nurtured by recent crises and/or long-standing public policy transformations. In particular, they highlight salient parallels between most of the countries with regard to politicisation and contentiousness, cooperation and transnationalism and social learning and innovation, while also raising awareness for field-specific differences and particularities.
Highlights
Citizen groups across Europe are engaged in solidarity activism in a wider range of issue fields
Problems have increased in the wake of the financial and economic crisis since 2008, and additional challenges have emerged with the so-called refugee crisis, which announced itself through increasing inflows of refugees in the South European countries, 10 Conclusions: Differing Contexts, Converging Experiences
Citizen groups and civic organisations have had to respond to the socio- economic and financial crisis in a very different way
Summary
Citizen groups across Europe are engaged in solidarity activism in a wider range of issue fields. Many of these groups and organisations have been active for many years, but this engagement has been stepped up considerably in reaction to the growing social needs and political demands provoked by the various crises that have affected European countries since 2008. The perceptions of the interviewed activists, the experiences they report and the lessons learned share a great number of similarities, testifying that citizen groups, while committed to local activism and restricted to a limited area of operation, seem to be part of a cross-national arena of transnational solidarity work, committed to a similar mission in a context of similar challenges and degradations
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