Supporting Searchers’ Desire for Emplacement in Berlin: Informal Practices in Defiance of an (Im)mobility Regime

The article traces the ways in which refugees precarious legal and economic circumstances Lagers (refugee camps) Germany participate informal practices to reverse their displaced positions. More specifically, paper demonstrates how work conjunction with a Berlin-based solidarity group order find access informally organized housing outside of formal bureaucratic state system. study shows that refugees’ engagement structures must be understood as struggles towards emplacement formality. Much scholarship has discussed aspects informality global South post-socialist countries. However, there is little discussion on may engage within nation-state achieve additionally acts are co-produced between citizens process searching offering living places defined systems. Thus, needs resistance against displacement, draws ethnographic data on-going participation grassroots group, Schlafplatzorga, supports an level temporary accommodation.