TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blank, Martina
T1  - "Wir schaffen das!"? Spatial pitfalls of neighborhood-based refugee reception in Germany - a case study of Frankfurt-Rödelheim
T2  - Social sciences
N2  - Refugee reception in Germany is a primarily municipal task that relies heavily on neighborhood-based volunteering. This paper asserts that there are fundamental spatial mismatches between municipal policies and neighborhood-based approaches that place additional burden on all of the stakeholders involved. Drawing from the case of Frankfurt-Rödelheim, which is a socially and ethnically mixed neighborhood in Frankfurt am Main, I show how the way the municipality accommodates refugees disregards the politically embraced work of neighborhood-based volunteers and how the ideal of neighborhood-based inclusion creates a spatial fetish that fails the living reality of the refugees. The findings are based on my ethnographic fieldwork as volunteer in a neighborhood-based welcome initiative.
KW  - forced migration
KW  - local refugee reception
KW  - refugee accommodation
KW  - municipalities
KW  - neighborhood activism
KW  - Germany
KW  - Frankfurt am Main
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56374
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-563747
VL  - 8
IS  - 161
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -