Ramachandran Niroshan, Vathi Zana
School of Law, Criminology and Policing, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, L39 4QP Lancashire UK.
Department of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, L39 4QP Lancashire UK.
J Int Migr Integr. 2023;24(2):843-863. doi: 10.1007/s12134-022-00979-6. Epub 2022 Aug 11.
Volunteering is an activity based on a non-profit idea of engagement in productive transactions. This paper examines why and how asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) partake in volunteering focusing particularly on the everyday, mundane experiences of volunteering and the role of the material and financial gains as part of it. Data is drawn from 30 interviews conducted with ASRs from 15 countries residing in Glasgow, 20 interviews with the third sector and state agency staff, and supplemented by participant observation conducted in third sector organisations involved in ASRs' integration and settlement. Despite the individual and situational differences, volunteering appeals to ASRs as it enables them to gain familiarity with and social connectivity in their new environs as well as supplements subsistence needs, providing material and financial benefits. These mundane and seemingly secondary gains from volunteering consist of the flesh of the otherwise abstract processes of inclusion, due to the symbolic and logistic significance they have in the ASRs' lives.
志愿服务是一种基于非营利理念的参与生产性交易的活动。本文探讨了寻求庇护者和难民（ASR）参与志愿服务的原因和方式，特别关注志愿服务的日常平凡经历以及其中物质和经济收益所起的作用。数据来自对居住在格拉斯哥的15个国家的ASR进行的30次访谈、对第三部门和国家机构工作人员进行的20次访谈，并辅以在参与ASR融入和定居的第三部门组织中进行的参与观察。尽管存在个体和情境差异，但志愿服务对ASR有吸引力，因为它使他们能够在新环境中获得熟悉感和社会联系，同时补充生存需求，提供物质和经济利益。志愿服务这些平凡且看似次要的收益构成了原本抽象的融入过程的实质内容，因为它们在ASR的生活中具有象征意义和后勤意义。
