7 results on '"Lahusen, Christian"'
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2. Does Organisation Matter? Solidarity Approaches among Organisations and Sectors in Europe.
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Fernández G. G., Eva, Lahusen, Christian, and Kousis, Maria
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SOLIDARITY ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,RECESSIONS ,ORGANIZATION - Abstract
European citizens continue to engage in solidarity activities in support of vulnerable groups within and beyond their own countries. Many of these organised practices of transnational solidarity provide research with important insights into the features and conditions of organisational forms of support. This article makes use of a unique dataset of transnational solidarity organisations in eight European countries during a period of economic recession and immigration crisis, and aims to empirically describe the different forms and types of solidarity prevalent within three different organisational sectors. It strives to identify the organisational features explaining the elective affinities between organisational forms and solidarity approaches. The empirical analysis validates that organisational traits and types matter when favouring vertical and/or horizontal forms of support towards vulnerable groups. Findings corroborate the relevance of professionalisation, aims, and values, in addition to action repertoires to explain organisational profiles and collective approaches to solidarity-based practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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3. Introduction: Comparative European Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity Organisations.
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Kousis, Maria and Lahusen, Christian
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REFUGEES ,SOLIDARITY ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,COLLECTIVE action ,UNEMPLOYMENT - Abstract
Solidarity with the deprived is a mission that many civic organisations share throughout Europe. The various crises, to which the European Union has been exposed to, have fueled and constrained this collective action at the same time. This article offers an introduction into this special issue. It highlights that the objective is to provide sound empirical findings about the magnitude and structure of the organisational field and to offer theoretical insights into the forces and constraints impacting on it. In addition, it presents the unique and new datasets on which the analyses are based on and stresses their comparative approach, given research carried out across fields (migration/refugees, unemployment, and disabilities) and countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK). Finally, the introduction to the special issue argues that the organisational fields are exposed to transformations that point to a more transnational scope of activities and a more encompassing and inclusive understanding of solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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4. European Solidarity at a Crossroads? Citizens' Attitudes and Political Behaviors in Europe.
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Grasso, Maria T. and Lahusen, Christian
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CITIZEN attitudes , *POLITICAL participation , *POLITICAL attitudes , *SOLIDARITY , *DEMOGRAPHIC surveys - Abstract
Many observers have voiced their concerns that solidarity is at risk in Europe. Given this wider context, we are urgently in need of sound empirical analyses examining the various dimensions of solidarity in Europe. Public debates focus on solidarity in many respects but there is to date a lack of empirical evidence to draw upon to inform them. In this context, this special issue emerges from research conducted in the European Union–funded research project TransSOL devoted to the study of European solidarity ("European Paths to Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crisis") running from 2015 to 2018. The project received funding under the Horizon 2020 program (Grant Agreement No. 649435). Christian Lahusen at the University of Siegen coordinated the overall project and Maria Grasso at the University of Sheffield coordinated the population survey for the project. The TransSOL survey includes approximately 2,000 respondents from each of the eight countries of the project (total N ~ 16,000): Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In the context of the project, the aim of the cross-national survey was to build a comparative dataset that would allow us to answer our theoretically relevant questions of interest on European solidarity such as those discussed in this introduction and in the other articles of this special issue. The articles in this special issue all analyze the data from this original survey dataset to shed systematic light into key theoretically-driven research questions on various aspects of European solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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5. European Transnational Solidarity: Citizenship in Action?
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Lahusen, Christian and Theiss, Maria
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WORLD citizenship , *SOCIAL & economic rights , *POLITICAL participation , *SOLIDARITY - Abstract
Europeans proclaim a readiness to engage for solidarity in support of others, even across their most immediate environment. However, our knowledge is rather limited on how widespread transnational European solidarity might be. Additionally, we do not know what kinds of beliefs and ideas are patterning cognitively the popular conceptions of transnational European solidarity. This article aims to present fresh insights on all these aspects. The analysis is based on a survey conducted in the context of the TransSOL project. This survey provides data about citizens reporting to have supported people abroad through various practices. In conceptual and theoretical terms, the article wishes to analyze and discuss transnational European solidarity from the perspective of political citizenship. Findings show that solidarity activities in support of other Europeans are more likely among citizens with "civic" skills and commitments, stronger identifications with the European Union, and preferences for more inclusive social rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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6. Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe
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Christian Lahusen, Verena K. Brändle, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Olga Eisele, Manlio Cinalli, Cinalli, Manlio, Trenz, Hans-Jörg, Brändle, Verena K., Eisele, Olga, and Lahusen, Christian
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business.industry ,Media studies ,Arts ,FOS: Humanities ,Political communication ,Massenmedien ,Public opinion ,Area studies ,Politics & international relations ,Solidarity ,Contentious politics ,Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi ,Humanities ,Flüchtling ,Solidarität ,Political science ,Public sphere ,Journalism ,320 Politik ,Europa ,business ,News media ,Berichterstattung ,Mass media - Abstract
This book examines the ‘European refugee crisis’, offering an in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the media in contesting solidarity towards refugees from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere, the book follows the assumption that solidarity is a social value, political concept and legal principle that is discursively constructed in public contentions. The analysis refers systematically and comparatively to eight European countries, namely, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Treatment of data is also original in the way it deals with variations of public spheres by combining a news media claims-making analysis with a social media reception analysis. In particular, the book highlights the prominent role of the mass media in shaping national and transnational solidarity, while exploring the readiness of the mass media to extend thick conceptions of solidarity to non-members. It proposes a research design for the comparative analysis of online news reception and considers the innovative potential of this method in relation to established public opinion research. The book is of particular interest for scholars who are interested in the fields of European solidarity, migration and refugees, contentious politics, while providing an approach that talks to scholars of journalism and political communication studies, as well as digital journalism and online news reception. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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- 2021
7. Solidarity contestation in the public domain during the ‘refugee crisis’
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Olga Eisele, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena K. Brändle, Manlio Cinalli, Lahusen, Christian, Christian Lahusen, Cinalli, Manlio, Trenz, Hans-Jörg, Eisele, Olga, and Brändle, Verena
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Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia dei Processi Culturali e Comunicativi ,Political economy ,Political science ,Refugee crisis ,Public domain ,Solidarity - Published
- 2020
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