"Wir schaffen das!"? Spatial pitfalls of neighborhood-based refugee reception in Germany - a case study of Frankfurt-Rödelheim
- 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.
Author: | Martina Blank |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-563747 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8050161 |
Parent Title (English): | Social sciences |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2019/05/27 |
Date of first Publication: | 2019/05/27 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/12/08 |
Tag: | Frankfurt am Main; Germany; forced migration; local refugee reception; municipalities; neighborhood activism; refugee accommodation |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 161 |
Page Number: | 15 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 50718713X |
Institutes: | Geowissenschaften / Geographie / Geographie |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |