“Why Don’t You Just Kick Out the Foreigners?”: Authoritarian Answers to the Housing Question in Leipzig, East Germany
Peter Bescherer und Leon Reichle | 2022
When asked for their greatest fear, more than 50 percent of German citizens respond with “Loss of state control caused by refugees” and “Social tension caused by immigrants.” Forty-five percent, however, fear that “Housing in Germany becomes unaffordable” (R+V Versicherung 2019). How is the commodification of housing interrelated to the rise of racism and authoritarianism witnessed by many countries over the past years?
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- Publikationsdatum
- 11.05.2022
- Sprache
- English
- Zielgruppe
- Wissenschaft (oeffnet in neuem Fenster)
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- Bescherer, Peter und Leon Reichle. 2022. “Why Don’t You Just Kick Out the Foreigners?”: Authoritarian Answers to the Housing Question in Leipzig, East Germany. In: Spatializing Authoritarianism, hg. von Natalie Koch, 260–278. Syracuse University Press, 2022. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2djhg8q.17.
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