The Local Governance of Arrival in Leipzig: Housing of Asylum-Seeking Persons as a Contested Field
The Local Governance of Arrival in Leipzig: Housing of Asylum-Seeking Persons as a Contested Field
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抵达莱比锡的当地治理：寻求庇护者的住房成为一个有争议的领域
作者：
Franziska Werner;A. Haase;Nona Renner;D. Rink;Malena Rottwinkel;Anika Schmidt
本文探讨了德国莱比锡市如何管理寻求庇护者的住房。莱比锡在2012年采用其住宿概念时，是组织寻求庇护者分散住宿的领跑者。这一概念旨在使寻求庇护者在抵达的早期阶段就融入正规住房市场。然而，自那时以来，莱比锡市在实施这一概念方面面临越来越多的挑战。这主要是由于住房市场日益紧张，而寻求保护的人数增加，部分原因是房主和管理人员的歧视和仇外态度。因此，我们认为，2015-2016年所谓的难民危机必须与莱比锡和许多其他欧洲大城市日益严重的住房短缺密切相关。此外，我们了解到，市政住房管理是一个有争议的领域，涉及不同的联邦级别和政策规模的纠缠，涉及利益相关者的多样性，以及过去几年的动态变化。我们分析了这一有争议的领域设置对当前的到达和动态的城市增长在地方一级的背景。基于我们在2016年进行的实证定性研究，莱比锡的当地具体情况将在我们的抵达治理概念框架下进行调查。住房市场紧张和寻求庇护者融入住房市场的问题不仅适用于莱比锡，也为其他欧洲城市的类似发展提供了启示。
The article examines how the German city of Leipzig governs the housing of asylum seekers. Leipzig was a frontrunner in organizing the decentralized accommodation of asylum seekers when adopting its accommodation concept in 2012. This concept aimed at integrating asylum-seeking persons in the regular housing market at an early stage of arrival. However, since then, the city of Leipzig faces more and more challenges in implementing the concept. This is particularly due to the increasingly tight situation on the housing market while the number of people seeking protection increased and partly due to discriminating and xenophobic attitudes on the side of house owners and managers. Therefore, we argue that the so-called refugee crisis of 2015–2016 has to be seen in close interaction with a growing general housing shortage in Leipzig like in many other large European cities. Furthermore, we understand the municipal governing of housing as a contested field regarding its entanglement of diverse federal levels and policy scales, the diversity of stakeholders involved, and its dynamic change over the last years. We analyze this contested field set against the current context of arrival and dynamic urban growth on a local level. Based on empirical qualitative research that was conducted by us in 2016, Leipzig’s local specifics will be investigated under the umbrella of our conceptual framework of Governance of Arrival. The issues of a strained housing market and the integration of asylum seekers in it do not apply only to Leipzig, but shed light on similar developments in other European Cities.