• Inclusion

• External Shocks

• Accommodating newcomers

Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations How to Keep Them Inside? Organizational and Motivational Factors That Influence Volunteer Retention for Refugee Aid Organizations Hop in and Drop Out: How are Changes in the Life Course Related to Changes in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations? Socio-structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: a Resource-based Approach Trends in Forms of Civic Involvement in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2020

How to Keep Them Inside? Organizational and Motivational Factors That Influence Volunteer Retention for Refugee Aid Organizations Hop in and Drop Out: How are Changes in the Life Course Related to Changes in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations? Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations Trends in Forms of Civic Involvement in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2020 Socio-structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: a Resource-based Approach

Studies in volunteering often focus on why people start volunteering and how to retain volunteers. Conversely, less attention is given to why volunteers quit. Hustinx (2010) provided a substantial contribution on this topic by examining quitting volunteering at the Flemish Red Cross. The present article revisits and extends the contribution of Hustinx (2010), by exploring reasons to quit volunteering at the Netherlands’ largest refugee aid organization. Based on thematic analysis of open answers from 605 former volunteers for refugees, we find that organization-related reasons and personal circumstances are important drivers for quitting volunteering, thereby confirming Hustinx’ outcomes. Moreover, we identified another ‘umbrella’ under which many exit reasons can be subsumed: reasons to quit volunteering that are rooted in egocentric considerations. Next to this third perspective, this study raises attention for burnout and boreout in volunteering and challenges in mentor–mentee relationships, being volunteer–refugee relationships where volunteers quit out of frustration, disappointment or unfulfilled expectations. Implications of the findings and directions for further research are discussed.

Why do people quit their volunteering in human service organizations with direct client contact?

• External data

• Questionaire

No

• Structured
• Unstructured

• Dutch

10/05/2023

07/11/2024

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