"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 |
