{"product_id":"9781839991240","title":"Refugee Support and Moral Practice in Slovakia","description":"Author: Eva-Maria Walther\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781839991240\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 220 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book unravels the emotional tapestry of refugee support in Slovakia and suggests a framework for studying interaction in migration contexts that fuses approaches to emotion and morality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ethnography explores the political quandaries and personal dilemmas that refugee supporters - volunteers and NGO employees - in Slovakia face while working with their target group. Operating in a refugee-hostile political and public climate, they navigate scarce or absent refugee care infrastructures and strict supervision by state authorities. Building on extensive participant observation in three different refugee support organisations, the book shows how moral codes and emotional templates shape the implementation of refugee support, structuring encounters and clashes between refugees, helpers, and bureaucrats. The ethnography illustrates how, despite a plenitude of divergent constraints, the actors produce remarkably permanent makeshift solutions for \u0026amp;#x27;good enough\u0026amp;#x27; care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, it is on the level of personal encounters and clashes that ideological and practical delineations between state and non-state actors, and between refugee-hostile and refugee-friendly positions, become blurred: NGO refugee supporters sometimes converge with state policies in practices of control while state authorities occasionally become deeply invested in providing empathetic care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book revisits narratives of illiberal backsliding and xenophobia in Central and Eastern European countries by describing the complicated emergence and perpetuation of refugee-hostile sentiments in an exemplary setting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924922941598,"sku":"ING-9781839991240","price":159.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781839991240.jpg?v=1782955864","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781839991240","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}