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Aid actors and media sources attributed these events to far\u2010right, nationalist, and xenophobic mobilisation; however, this risks ignoring more structural factors and local perspectives on asylum policies and practices. This paper suggests that a more critical approach is necessary to understand why people mobilised against aid on Lesvos, and it explores how this antagonism can be seen as intrinsic to the \u2018humanitarian border\u2019 as it materialised on the island. Aid groups, volunteers, and activists became integral to this, spawning stories of how they were sustaining the migration dynamic. How these stories coincided with far\u2010right mobilisation is not straightforward, and nuancing how local concern and protest and far\u2010right anti\u2010immigration sympathies relate is imperative to comprehending hostility to aid groups and may contribute to fostering better relations with communities in refugee\u2010hosting areas.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/disa.12679","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,11]],"date-time":"2025-03-11T13:40:15Z","timestamp":1741700415000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["The humanitarian border as a violence\u2010producing environment: revisiting aid and anti\u2010migration protests on Lesvos, Greece"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"49","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5405-259X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bram J.","family":"Jansen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Wageningen University  The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","volume-title":"The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees","author":"Aikins M.","year":"2022"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Alexandrakis O.(2019) \u2018Rethinking social resistance through the consolidating politics of humanitarian populism in Mytilene Greece\u2019.Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. 26(1). 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