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Introduction : citizen humanitarianism at European borders / Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Elisa Pascucci -- Filling the baps : citizen humanitarianism in the context of crisis abandonment and criminalisation / Heidi Mogstad -- A community center in a humanitarian context : the professionalization of a grassroots initiative in Istanbul, Turkey / Tsjalline Boorsma -- Citizen humanitarianism and local responses to the migration crisis in Serbia / Svetlana Stanarević and Vanja Rokvić -- "They just come and try to help" : exploring the prioritisation of downstream accountability in Calais' citizen-led humanitarianism / Leila Denniston -- Melilla : fight and survival of activist humanitarianism / Clara Miralles Vila -- A more subversive humanitarianism? : the political strategies of grassroots initiatives supporting illegalized migrants / Robin Vandevoordt -- Beyond borders : the transnational turn of Russian refugee aid / Johanne Kalsaas -- Contesting humanitarianism through solidarity and hospitality in the French-Italian borderscape / Janina Louise Pescinski -- Proximity and protest : citizen demonstrations against anti-immigrant policies in eastern Sicily / Vera Haller -- Memorial tourism and citizen humanitarianism : volunteers' civil pilgrimage to the "life jackets graveyard" of Lesvos, Greece / Giovanna Di Matteo -- Approaching biographical life : grassroots humanitarianism in Europe / Luděk Stavinoha and Kavita Ramakrishnan -- Conclusion : citizen humanitarianism beyond the "crisis" / Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Elisa Pascucci.

At a time of escalating conflict between states and NGOs engaged in migrant search and rescue operations across the Mediterranean, this book explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of helping others at the borders of Europe. In recent years, Europe's borders have become new sites of intervention for traditional humanitarian actors and governmental agencies, but also, increasingly, for volunteer and activist initiatives led by "ordinary" citizens. This book sets out to interrogate the shifting relationship between humanitarianism, the securitization of border and migration regimes, and citizenship. Critically examining the "do it yourself" character of refugee aid practices performed by non-professionals coming together to help in informal and spontaneous manners, the volume considers the extent to which these new humanitarian practices challenge established conceptualisations of membership, belonging, and active citizenship. Drawing on case studies from countries around Europe including Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Russia, this collection constitutes an innovative and theoretically engaged attempt to bring the field of humanitarian studies into dialogue with studies of grassroots refugee aid and, more explicitly, with political forms of solidarity with migrants and refugees which fall between aid and activism.This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of humanitarian aid, European migration and refugees, and citizen-led activism.

This publication of the European Journal of Geography (EJG) is based on the European Association of Geographer's goal to make European Geography a worldwide reference and standard. In other words, the papers published in the EJG are focused in promoting the significance of geography as a disciplin in the resolving global issues, in addition of course in improving the quality of research relatet to learning, teaching and applying geography. The aim of this book, which is a selection of EJG papers, is to highlight the contribution of geographic research in dealing with critical everyday issues such as health, education, accessibility etc. Modern Geography endowed with a wide variety of geospatial technologies is able to efficiently adress those and provide decisions makers with efficient means to successfully approach them. The book you have in your hands provides a glimpse of the important role gespatial technologies can play in helping politicans, among others, in resolving everyday problems.

The legal recognition of LGBTQI+ parent families differs considerably across Europe and is a matter that is largely outside of the remit of EU law. This creates difficulties for LGBTQI+ parent families who cross European borders as legal parent-child relationships established in one Member State may not be recognized in another, resulting in limping legal parentage. In the case of V.M.A. v. Stolichna obshtina, the CJEU found that where one EU Member State recognizes the legal parentage of same-sex parents, all other EU Member States must also recognize those parent-child relationships for the purpose of free movement. This article examines the significance and limitations of the decision.

HELSINKI EUROPE IS BEING SPLIT INTO TWO: IN THE WESTERN ZONE THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY IS TRYING TO COPE WITH THE ISSUE OF ORDER; IN THE EASTERN ZONE, RUSSIA IS TRYING TO GUARANTY STABILTIY. WESTERN MILITARY STRUCTURES ARE BEING INTERNATIONALIZED, WHILE RUSSIA IS MOVING TOWARDS A RE-NATIONALIZATION OF DEFENSE. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES ONE STRIKING SIMILAR FEATURE OF PEACE OPEATIONS UNDER UN FLAG AND UNDER THE RUSSIAN TRICOLOR WHICH IS THE DE FACTO CREATION OF NEW BORDERS. REVISION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF BORDER-INVIOLABILITY AND THE INTRODUCTION OF DEMOCRATIC AND BINDING PROCEDURES FOR CHANGES ARE VERY MUCH NEEDED.

Does cultural heritage create either bridges of engagement or walls of division within and beyond Europe? To capture these diverse interpretations, we provide some initial discussion on the concept of heritage and how this relates to identity, memory and the past. In order to introduce the various studies that comprise the forum, we identify a series of collective themes explored by our contributors. These are: the use of heritage sites and practices as a means of exploring questions of European unity; the idea of a decolonizing heritage alongside the reframing of contested transcultural encounters; and finally, the potential for heritage as a form of conflict resolution.