Culture, Practice & Europeanization

The central element of a housing market crisis is the unmet housing demand of the population, especially for the socio-economically disadvantaged. In the Austrian province of Tyrol, unmet housing demand has long been a social and political concern...

Land and housing are in crisis. Rising rents and land prices have triggered severe housing problems, particularly for low-income and average-income households. In addition to residential apartment distribution, land speculation has become...

This research note presents a comparative analysis of Syrian refugee family integration in France and Germany, focusing on challenges related to housing, language acquisition, and employment. Through a comparative ethnography involving 20 Syrian...

The political use of mass accommodation for governing asylum seekers is growing in frequency, despite its documented disadvantages for asylum seekers’ wellbeing and protection. So long as mass accommodation of asylum seekers is used by states, it...

Externalisation is a core structural feature of capitalist societies. The negative effects of a capitalist mode of society and economy are externalised to other countries and later generations. The question that will be addressed in this paper is...

The rapidly increasing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe since 2014 have given the topic of refugee migration heightened public and scholarly attention. Starting from the observation that the legal status and rights of refugees from...

Since the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, about one million people have fled to Germany in 2022. Due to the gender-specific policies for staying and leaving Ukraine, the socio-demographic composition of the refugees differs markedly...