Volunteering, Migration and Citizenship: The Role of Volunteering in Constructing Inclusive Societies

Volunteering, Migration and Citizenship brings together the fields of migration studies and volunteering research to juxtapose the study of volunteering by migrants with the study of volunteering for migrants.

While in the social sciences volunteering has often been interpreted as the result of a renunciation of the transformation of society - a regression to pre-modern forms of helping the needy, or a retreat from ideals of social justice - this book takes an unconventional position by poin...