From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: The Campization of Refugee Accommodation in European Cities

Kreichauf, René

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“…Although they offer higher levels of privacy, have fewer people sharing amenities, and allow some level of independence and autonomy, they are still referred to as "camps" by our contacts. The fact that they are purposebuilt for asylum-seekers keeps their inhabitants isolated from local Germans and from integrated co-ethnics in some sort of "ghettos" (Siebel, 2016), and confronts them with power structures (Kreichauf, 2018), with the management staff and security personnel. Of course, this varies in intensity when combined with other institutional arrangements mentioned above like their location, direct surroundings and being fenced off on the neighborhood level.…”

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“…The apartments are designed for (up to) six people who share a bathroom, a kitchen and three bedrooms, furnished with bunk beds, a table, two chairs, and metal lockers. Source: Göttingen City website in 2016. tions of inhabitants in accommodations, power and dependency structures (Kreichauf, 2018), accessibility to and qualification of management staff, social workers and translators, and the number of active volunteers involved in the daily lives of refugees.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Urban Planning for the Integration of Refugees: The Importance of Local Factors

Seethaler-Wari

2018

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Housing location is one of several characteristics that play a significant role in the future integration of asylum-seekers. Many of these characteristics or institutional arrangements are spatialized aspects relevant to urban planning. Drawing on experiences from fieldwork in Göttingen, a mid-sized city in the German Federal state of Lower-Saxony 2016–2018, this article demonstrates the local challenges, strategies and their resulting institutional arrangements on various aspects of asylum-seekers’ lives. It discusses the influence of those arrangements on the development of their social circles, and on their access to different resources, influencing their participation in and interaction with the social and urban life of their host cities; thereby influencing their integration processes. To do so, the article addresses local factors that are significant for urban planners to include into an integration plan. It observes the role urban planning can play in preventing aspects of segregation in the various life domains of refugees and in providing urban contexts that facilitate integration in European cities. The first assumption of this article is that integration, refugees’ attitudes towards it, and an urban context that can facilitate it start from day one of the arrival of new comers in their host city/town. The second assumption is that integration happens on the local level of the city, and more specifically on the level of the host neighborhood.

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Section: Spatial Layoutsmentioning

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Section: Spatial Layoutsmentioning

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Urban Planning for the Integration of Refugees: The Importance of Local Factors

Seethaler-Wari

2018

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“…Although urban research in Germany has started to address the socio-spatial distribution and architectures of so-called collective accommodation for asylum seekers (cf. Dalal et al, 2018; Kreichauf, 2014, 2018), the refugees’ spatial agency and particularly the spatial knowledge mobilized within these processes have not yet been the subject of substantive research; or, as Romola Sanyal (2014: 558) writes: ‘Refugee spaces are emerging as quintessential geographies of the modern, yet their intimate and everyday spatialities remain under-explored.’ This is why we want to shift our focus to what Sanyal describes as people recovering their agency through ‘producing spaces’ both physically and politically (2014: 558).…”

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“…With its controversial policy to separate refugee housing responses from other affordable housing schemes in the city, Berlin’s Senate has clearly framed and exposed refugees as separate from ordinary Berliners, as temporary residents or visitors. This response, as well as the pragmatic choice of sites in often peripheral, poorly serviced locations, was widely criticized by activists and planning professionals alike as ‘campization’ (Kreichauf, 2018) and as fueling tension with surrounding neighborhoods. Indeed, hostilities have been most frequent in those locations where Tempohomes or LaGeSo-villages were built within neighborhoods of predominantly low-income residents with infrastructural deficiencies.…”

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Architectures of asylum: Making home in a state of permanent temporariness

Steigemann

Misselwitz

2020

Current Sociology

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Urban research in Germany has started to address the socio-spatial distribution and architectures of so-called collective accommodation for asylum seekers, refugee camps, and new forms of ethnic segregation triggered by refugee movements in recent years. The spatial practices of refugees themselves within these processes have not yet been a subject of substantive research. Combining research methods from social and architectural sciences, this article investigates the physical, material, social and symbolic appropriation processes and the spatial dimension of homemaking by Syrian refugees currently housed in refugee accommodation in Berlin, Germany. What spatial knowledge is mobilized at the place of asylum in order to turn the accommodation into a home? How do spatial practices and knowledge hybridize practices of the place of origin, experiences made during the flight and the arriving and uncertain period of stay at an unfamiliar place of asylum? How do spatial appropriation processes collide with humanitarian logics and technocratic emergency management approaches at the place of asylum? With these questions, the article focuses on the ways in which refugees perceive, adapt to, appropriate and alter their new urban environment physically and socially, and how they thereby draw on existing and evolving stocks of urban knowledge, urban experiences and social relationships. It argues that to develop a homelike space in temporary accommodation, arriving refugees mobilize knowledge at the place of asylum which can only be understood as a re-figuration process that is equally at work in the case of other migrants, migration and translocal processes. Studying these urban re-figurations thus helps us to reveal how the interplay of refugees’ agency and their knowledge and the technocratic regime – as a state of permanent temporariness – affects the making of a ‘home’.

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“…The migration is a phenomenon widely debated in European countries where it assumes specific characteristics and diversified intervention models and policies (Kesler & Safi, 2018; Tammaru et al, 2016). Researchers and policies are increasingly focusing on the impact of migration in hospitality settings and on intervention models and good practices to make the most of experiences developed over the years in different countries (Kreichauf, 2018; Rania, Migliorini, & Fagnini, 2018). Therefore, the literature has mainly focused on the differences and choices of migratory pathways in relation to gender (Pannetier et al, 2017; Tuccio & Wahba, 2018) or on unaccompanied migrant minors who are considered a particularly vulnerable target (Van Holen et al, 2019), neglecting the family dimension of migration.…”

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Reception Social Services for Migration Families in Italy: Strength, Critical Aspects, and Challenges

Coppola

Rania

Pinna

2021

Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: The objective of this research is to investigate the perception that migrant families and social workers have of their relationship and of the services offered and received in the reception path. Method: The qualitative research involved thirty parents with semi-structured family interviews and their twelve reference social workers, with focus group. The collected materials were transcribed verbatim and analysed through the grounded theory, using the NVivo software. Results: Results highlighted strengths, critical issues and challenges, some shared between social workers and families, like the sense of mutual trust and the perception of abandonment and loneliness. Others were expressed only by social workers as a greater attention to families, or by families as the possibility of social-health services. Conclusion: Many of the practical implications have been discussed such as the supervision of social workers, the widespread hospitality and the development of skills of social workers but also of families for social and work integration.

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From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: The Campization of Refugee Accommodation in European Cities

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

Urban Planning for the Integration of Refugees: The Importance of Local Factors

Urban Planning for the Integration of Refugees: The Importance of Local Factors

Architectures of asylum: Making home in a state of permanent temporariness

Reception Social Services for Migration Families in Italy: Strength, Critical Aspects, and Challenges

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