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Escape to the island: International volunteer engagement on Lesvos during the refugee crisis
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As hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants haphazardly crossed the strait between Turkey and the Greek island of Lesvos on their way to safety in Europe in 2015, thousands of citizens from all over Europe temporarily abandoned their day jobs to be of some sort of assistance for the refugees as they arrived on the beaches of Lesvos. We analyze the process and the relationships between the various stakeholders who were involved in the refugee crisis between April 2015 and January 2018, arguing that there is a need to find new ways of managing this type of spontaneous volunteerism without on the one hand strangling flexible and innovative volunteering initiatives, and on the other hand without compromising knowledge-based humanitarian responses.
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“Local aid initiatives were also threatened, as these were seen as aiding or sustaining asylum seekers' presence on Lesvos. For instance, some hotels refused to house aid groups and their volunteers (Guribye and Mydland, 2018, p. 358).”
From The humanitarian border as a violence‐producing environment: revisiting aid and anti‐migration protests on Lesvos, Greece (2025) · cites this paper as Guribye and Mydland, 2018
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“In this shared precarity continuum, ‘right‐wing groups such as Golden Dawn and Patriotic Movement of Lesvos organized rallies and protests against the presence of asylum seekers and refugees, and at one point physically assaulted and injured volunteers’ (Guribye and Mydland, 2018, p. 358).”
From The humanitarian border as a violence‐producing environment: revisiting aid and anti‐migration protests on Lesvos, Greece (2025) · cites this paper as Guribye and Mydland, 2018
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“an earlier study notes that parts of the local community were aggravated when at some point refugees were going into Mytilene and ‘setting up tents on the town square and going on a hunger strike’, supported by aid groups (Guribye and Mydland, 2018, p. 359). Even then they targeted the refugees and the international NGOs, rather than the Greek state or the EU (Guribye and Mydland, 2018).”
From The humanitarian border as a violence‐producing environment: revisiting aid and anti‐migration protests on Lesvos, Greece (2025) · cites this paper as Guribye and Mydland, 2018
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“This resonates in other resources also, which indicate how local peoples' concerns about migration on the island were obscured or ostracised from the outset (Papataxiarchis, 2016b; Guribye and Mydland, 2018; Vallianatou, 2023).”
From The humanitarian border as a violence‐producing environment: revisiting aid and anti‐migration protests on Lesvos, Greece (2025) · cites this paper as Guribye and Mydland, 2018
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- Authors
- Guribye, E., & Mydland, T. S.
- Affiliations
- Agder Research (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Guribye, Eugene
- Venue
- Journal of Civil Society
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-09-27
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 346-363
- ISSN
- 1744-8689 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-8697
- OpenAlex
- W2894048640
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 6.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Civil Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Keywords
- international volunteers, refugee crisis, Lesbos, volunteer management, humanitarian response, stakeholder relations, 2015 refugee crisis
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