Allsopp, Harriet;
Astolfo, Giovanna;
Haase, Annegret;
Laksevics, Karlis;
Schmidt, Anika;
Nasya, Bahanur;
Khalil, Ayesha;
(2024)
Migrant housing struggle and racial discrimination: The case of postsocialist Leipzig and Riga.
Radical Housing Journal
, 6
(2)
pp. 97-114.
10.54825/cmkm2131.
(In press).
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Abstract
The civic mobilisation welcoming Ukrainian refugees after Russia’s invasion in February 2022 has shown how housing is a social infrastructure based on care and solidarity. But it has also shown its discriminatory face. By drawing on our recent collaborative research in Leipzig and Riga and conceptual reflections from previous research, this paper elaborates on how practices of welcoming and housing refugees intertwine with state racism and everyday discrimination. It is grounded in two intersecting lines of inquiry. The first one focuses on migrant housing struggles in the context of increased financialisation, privatisation and austerity urbanism. The second expands on the intersection of race and discrimination with housing, asking how race and racial discrimination intersect and affect migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers’ access to and experiences with housing. The underlying argument is that while housing is the site where this type of discrimination becomes spatialised and visible (and thus can be challenged), there is still a missing discourse around discrimination in migration and housing policy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Migrant housing struggle and racial discrimination: The case of postsocialist Leipzig and Riga |
| DOI: | 10.54825/cmkm2131 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.54825/cmkm2131 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198805 |
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