Bordering and Debordering Spaces of Asylum in the City of Frankfurt: Municipal Refugee Accommodation and Neighbourhood‐Based Volunteering

The segregation of refugees in collective accommodation centres represents an integral component the European border regime and its complex interplay inclusion exclusion. corresponding spatial, symbolic discursive demarcations, however, are not simply implemented politically from above, but negotiated on ground a daily basis. One crucial group actors German context neighbourhood-based volunteers. These groups frequently accompany with support structures. Based contributions field critical studies example municipal facility Frankfurt, Germany, this paper demonstrates how volunteers, through their practices engagement others, one hand, dominant discourses, institutions regulations other, participate production locally specific spaces asylum that marked by simultaneous contradictory processes bordering debordering.