This article examines how hope for a different culture of hospitality has been articulated during the long summer of migration of 2015 in Germany by juxtaposing Angela Merkel’s ‘Wir schaffen das’ speeches with the cross-border migrant March of Hope. The article suggests that while Merkel’s rhetoric opens the horizon to a more hospitable Europe, her policies of humanitarian securitisation ultimately redistribute hope away from migrants and towards a German nation imagined to be in need of protection from them. Subsequently, the article turns to the March of Hope to see how the gesture of hospitality embedded in Merkel’s rhetoric was reinterpreted and resisted. It shows that cross-border marches reveal affective infrastructures of care and hospitality that extend beyond the humanitarian border enacted by the state. These infrastructures provide the space for intimate negotiations of citizenship in which the relationality of social life is not framed through the racialised emergency logics of biopolitical control.

本文探讨了如何通过在跨境移民希望之行中将安吉拉·默克尔（Angela Merkel）的演讲“ Wir schaffen das”并列，在2015年漫长的德国夏季期间表达出对不同款待文化的希望。文章建议，尽管默克尔的言论为更热情好客的欧洲打开了视野，但她的人道主义证券化政策最终将希望重新分配了希望，不再是移民，而是转移到了一个德国国家，该国被认为需要得到他们的保护。随后，文章转向“希望之行”，以了解默克尔言辞中的热情好客姿态是如何被重新诠释和抵制的。它表明，跨境游行揭示了关怀和款待的情感基础设施，其范围超出了国家规定的人道主义边界。