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"Wir Schaffen Das!"? Spatial Pitfalls of Neighborhood-Based Refugee Reception in Germany—A Case Study of Frankfurt-Rödelheim.
- Source :
- Social Sciences (2076-0760); May2019, Vol. 8 Issue 5, p161, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- REFUGEES
STAKEHOLDERS
ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis
CITIES & towns
FORCED migration
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20760760
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Sciences (2076-0760)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 136754320
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8050161