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.
