Renting under racial capitalism: residential segregation and rent exploitation in the United States

Crowell, Amber R.

doi:10.1080/02732173.2022.2068101

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“…Residential segregation, housing discrimination, displacement, and evictions (often in the context of gentrification processes and high-end development projects), limited locational options for housing, and unequal housing opportunities (and burdens) are mechanisms of racial capitalism. They result in profit extraction and greater exploitation of racialized residents (Crowell, 2022;Fortner, 2023;Rucks-Ahidiana, 2022;Shabazz, 2015).…”

Section: Racial Capitalism Urban Housing and Migration Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market

Kreichauf

2023

Environ Plan D

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In response to the difficulties refugees face in finding housing, Berlin’s government has developed new housing-like shelters that offer longer-term accommodation. Drawing on literature concerning racial capitalism and urban migration governance, I explain how these shelters represent a multilayered business opportunity for revenue extraction, resulting in the ongoing displacement, spatial fixing, and continued racialization of refugees. Notably, I reveal the prominent roles of Berlin’s government, city-owned housing, and public real estate agencies. They use the construction of new refugee shelters in an entrepreneurial way in order to revitalize their own fiscal budgets, as well as to put urban land into production. This allows them to develop and then turn refugee shelters into substandard, racialized, and highly profitable forms of new urban housing for refugees and other racialized and low-income populations. Expounding the ways the building of accommodation as substandard urban housing leads to race-based pursuit of profit, I argue that refugee housing serves as an urban migration fix and is developed within the logic of racial capitalism. This article contributes to attempts to use racial capitalism as a framework to scrutinize urban and migration processes, helping us comprehend the distinctly racial logics of urban and migration governance, and housing precarity.

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Section: Racial Capitalism Urban Housing and Migration Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market

Kreichauf

2023

Environ Plan D

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“…The variously life‐giving and death‐dealing consequences homing/unhoming makes housing the ‘handmaiden’ of racial capitalism (Nethercote, 2022; see also Elliot‐Cooper et al., 2020a; Rivera et al., 2022), reinforced by the underexplored role of race in housing's centrality to financialised forms of accumulation (Fields & Raymond, 2021). Important research from the USA has examined both home ownership (Markley et al., 2020; Taylor, 2019) and the PRS (Akers & Seymour, 2018; Crowell, 2022) as sites of racial capitalism, emphasising how racialised minorities' exclusion from , and adverse incorporation into , property markets (re)produces spatially‐specific discrimination (Dymski, 2009; Wyly et al., 2012), creating ‘black towns in white spaces’ (Purifoy & Seamster, 2021).…”

Section: Racial Capitalism and Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations

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This paper provides a critical intervention into recent geographical debates on racial capitalism, interrogating the role that Housing Associations (HAs), the main form of UK social housing, play in its (re)production. Housing Associations are institutional, third-sector spaces within which novel forms of financialisation and bordering take place. Race is central to these processes, but insufficient critical attention has been afforded to the intersections of class, race, and migratory status in extant research on UK HAs. Moreover, existing research into housing and racial capitalism is provincial in its North American focus, typically examining home ownership and private renting. We argue this is a significant lacuna given that new and multiple forms of racialised exclusion, inequality, and extraction cohere in social housing.There is accordingly a pressing need for a robust interrogation of racial capitalisms through UK HAs, and of the role of HAs via the conceptual lens of racial capitalism. In concluding, the paper argues for a new focus on 'actually existing' racial capitalisms, and the need for detailed analyses of the logics and practices of racial capitalisms across a variety of sites and scales, helping debates move beyond their conceptual heartland in North America.

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Demography as a Field: Where We Came From and Where We Are Headed

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This essay provides a series of reflections on the current state of demography as seen by four early-career researchers who are actively engaged in aspects of the discipline as varied as research, teaching, mentorship, data collection efforts, policy making, and policy advising. Despite some claims that the discipline is weakening, we showcase the great potential of the field and outline promising pathways and novel directions for the future. In so doing, we critically assess recent innovations in data quality and availability, stressing the need to “revolutionize” the way that demographic methods are taught by adopting a viewpoint that more closely reflects the rapidly changing, or “fast,” nature of global social phenomena such as conflict-related displacements, environmental disasters, migration streams, pandemics, and evolving population policies. We conclude by discussing the relevance of careful demographic analyses for policy making, stressing three main points: (i) the need to make demography more visible and understandable to the public eye; (ii) the importance of engaging and co-creating with local communities to “break” the academic bubble; and (iii) the urge to counteract the spread of misinformation—a phenomenon that has become even more visible in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Renting under racial capitalism: residential segregation and rent exploitation in the United States

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market

Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market

Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations

Demography as a Field: Where We Came From and Where We Are Headed

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