the arrival of Syrian refugees in Berlin from 2015 onwards and whether their responses have resulted in new spaces in … Syrian refugees. At the same time, they perceive Syrian refugees as a threat to their standing in the city and their right to … the usage of urban space. This results in a more defensive urban citizenship against the refugees. Secondly, the unequal …

society justify the exclusion of specific groups such as refugees. Using Bautzen (Germany) as an example, the local discussion …The paper discusses how it becomes common behaviour to exclude refugees in a middle-town. Therefore, an analytical … about refugees as well as their perception is debated. Therefore, the discourse about refugees and violence against them is …

In almost all German cities since 2011 accommodations for refugees were established in residential areas, often leading … refugees and accommodations for them in their housing area. We conducted face-to-face interviews with representative samples of … residents in six such neighbourhoods in Hamburg, Cologne, and Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, and obtained a total of 1 …