På Facebook for flyktninger. En casestudie av Refugees Welcome-nettverket i Norge
Based on interviews with seven leaders and key figures in six different initiatives across the country, the chapter analyses the emergence and development of the Refugees Welcome-initiative in Norway. The aim of the study is to gain insight into the groups’ transformation from loose digital networks to becoming more or less formal organizations, providing a unique approach to understand the emergence and development of a social movement. By using a multi-dimensional approach, the study analyses how political opportunity structures, cultural framing and mobilizing structures—and the interaction between them—contributed to the emergence, rapid growth and development of RW. The chapter highlights the opportunities and challenges of a decentralized and informal organizational form, and how the potential of digitalization is conditioned by both internal needs for control and oversight, and external (legal) requirements and expectations.