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Though they are almost completely absent from the historical record, Palestinian women were extensively involved in the unfolding national struggle in their country during the British mandate period. Led primarily by urban, educated women from the middle and upper classes of Arab society, Palestinian women struggled against British colonialism and against Jewish settlement by holding a national congress, meeting with government officials, smuggling arms, demonstrating, and participating in regional and international conferences. This book is the first comprehensive historical study of the emergence and development of the Palestinian women's movement in this important historical period. Drawing from little-studied source material including oral histories, newspapers, memoirs, and government documents, Ellen Fleischmann not only shows what these women accomplished within the political arena, but also explores the social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they operated. Charting the emergence of an indigenous feminism in Palestine, this work joins efforts to broaden European and American definitions of feminism by incorporating non-Western perspectives

Frontmatter --Contents --1. INTRODUCTION: The Contested Solidarities of the German 'Welcome Culture --1.1. The Spirit of Summer 2015: "We Want to Help Refugees!" --1.2. The Political Ambivalences of Refugee Support --1.3. Conceptualizing Solidarity in Migration Societies --1.4. The Political Possibilities of Grassroots Humanitarianism --1.5. Rethinking Political Action in Migration Societies --1.6. Researching Solidarity in the German 'Summer of Welcome': Field, Access, Methods, Ethics --1.7. An Outline of Contested Solidarity --2. MOBILIZING SOLIDARITY: Building Local 'Welcome Culture' through a Moral Imperative to Act --2.1. The Notion of a 'Welcome Culture' and its Mobilizing Effects --2.2. Humanitarian Dissent: The Solidarity March 'Ellwangen Shows its Colours' --2.3. Humanitarian Governance: Volunteering with Refugees in Ellwangen --2.4. Concluding Remarks: Practices of Solidarity between Dissent and Co-Optation --3. GOVERNING SOLIDARITY: Volunteering with Refugees as a Field of Governmental Intervention --3.1. Governmental Interventions in the Conduct of Volunteering with Refugees --3.2. (Re)Ordering Responsibilities in the Reception of Asylum Seekers --3.3. (Re)Shaping the Self-Conduct of Committed Citizens --3.4. Depoliticizing "Uncomfortable" Practices of Refugee Support --3.5. Concluding Remarks: The Government of Refugee Solidarity --4. POLITICIZING SOLIDARITY: The Contested Political Meanings and Effects of Refugee Support --4.1. "We are also Political Volunteers!" --4.2. Politics of Presence: Enacting Alternative Visions of Society --4.3. Contestations around Equal Rights --4.4. Contestations around a Right to Stay --4.5. Contestations around a Right to Migrate --4.6. Concluding Remarks: Emerging Meanings of Political Action in Migration Societies --5. RECASTING SOLIDARITY: The Political Agency of Asylum Seekers in Relationships of Solidarity --5.1. Insubordinate Recipients: Asylum Seekers' Interventions in Relationships of Solidarity --5.2. The Intermediated Agency of Asylum Seekers --5.3. (De)politicizing the Meanings of Food: The Intermediation of Migrant Protest in Bad Waldsee --5.4. Deterring 'Economic Migrants': The Intermediation of Migrant Protest in Offenburg --5.5. Concluding Remarks: The Agency of Asylum Seekers in the Contestation of Solidarity --6. BREAKING SOLIDARITY: Refugee Activism as a Conflicting Imaginary of Solidarity and Community --6.1. At the Frontlines of Solidarity and Community --6.2. A Short History of Refugee Activism in Schwäbisch Gmünd --6.3. The Breaking of Relationships of Solidarity --6.4. The Conflicting Imaginaries of Community --6.5. Concluding Remarks: The Intimate Relationship between Community and Solidarity --7. WORDS IN CONCLUSION: Lines of Contestation in Contemporary Migration Societies --Introduction --7.1. The Contested Line between Insiders and Outsiders --7.2. The Contested Line between 'the State' and 'Civil Society' --7.3. The Contested Relationship between 'the Local' and 'the World Out There' --References

In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents felt an urge to provide help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not as simple and straightforward as it might appear. Practices of solidarity are intertwined with questions of power. They are situated, relative and contested, unfolding in an ambivalent space between humanitarianism and political activism. This ethnographic account of the German »welcome culture« provides insights into the contested practices, imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity. Drawing on works from critical migration studies to social anthropology, Larissa Fleischmann develops an empirically grounded understanding of solidarity in migration societies.

Intro -- Titel -- Impressum -- Widmung -- Inhalt -- Einleitung: Was ist eine Ananas wert? -- 1. Urbilder der Gerechtigkeit -- Gleich gegen gleich -- Schutz der Armen und Schwachen -- »Es rettet uns kein höh'res Wesen, kein Gott, kein Kaiser noch Tribun«? -- 2. Konzepte der Tauschgerechtigkeit -- Aristoteles und die Gleichheit im Austausch -- Der Freiwillige leidet kein Unrecht? -- In Rom entscheidet der Konsens -- 3. Tauschen ohne Zwang -- Die mittelalterliche Stadt als Geburtsort des modernen Bürgers -- Auf der Suche nach dem gerechten Preis -- Die Vertragsgerechtigkeit der Juristen -- 4. Vertragsfreiheit statt Gleichheit im Tausch -- Der freie Wille freier Eigentümer -- Der Markt wird gerecht -- Mit Rechten handeln -- 5. Gerechtigkeit nur jenseits des Marktes? -- Wachstum schlägt Gerechtigkeit oder die Erfindung der Knappheit -- Subjektive Rechte und Kapitalismus -- Gleich tauschen - geht das? -- 6. Jenseits der Tauschgerechtigkeit -- Eine bessere Gerechtigkeit? -- Das Lebensnotwendige als Maßstab der Tauschgerechtigkeit -- Jedem nach seinem Bedürfnis -- Dank -- Anhang -- Quellen -- Literaturhinweise -- Der Autor