This original, scholarly collection of essays investigates the intersections of large-scale international migration and solidarity-building. Unpacking how civil courage occurs, under what forms, and what sustains it, Carlo Tognato, Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, and Jeffrey C. Alexander bring together authors to explore a new theory of the exemplary individual or collective in the recent age of migration crisesactors who stand against injuries or injustices toward migrants, even when it is costly or risky in a context of hostility or indifference. A resource for those interested in the triggers and safeguards of democracy and civil society, and for scholars and practitioners alike, this volume offers empirical case studies from the US, Europe, Australia, and Latin America of cross-group solidarity efforts.
Carlo Tognato is Visiting Scholar the Center for the Study of Social Change, Institutions and Policy at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, USA.
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is Associate Professor of Sociology at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA, and the founder and co-director of Yales Center for Cultural Sociology.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Civil Courage in International Migration.- Part I: Righteous, Between Yesterday and Today.- Chapter 2: The Righteous of the Transnation: Jews, Muslims, and a Politics of Friendship in Berlin.- Chapter 3: We are Jewish and We Want to Help You: Righteous Cross-Group Solidarity towards Muslim Refugees in Vienna.- Chapter 4: Righteous Doctors: Reacting to the Inhumane Treatment of Asylum Seekers in Australia.- Part II: Righteous, Today.- Chapter 5: When Saving Lives Becomes a Crime: Performances of Solidarity with Migrants along Europes Southern Border.- Chapter 6: The Courage of Piety: Civil Solidarity and the Dead in International Migration.- Chapter 7: Solidary Cuisine: Las Patronas Facing the Central American Migratory Flow.- Chapter 8: Reaching Across: Migrant Support Activism on a Divided Island.- Chapter 9: We Always Have Been and Always Will Be a Sanctuary City: Cities as Righteous Actors in the U.S. Civil Sphere.- Part III: Commentary and Conclusion.- Chapter 10: Commentary: The Discursive Paradox of the Righteous Among the Nations in Civil Sphere Theorizing.- Chapter 11: Conclusion: The Public Performance of Civil Righteousness.
