TY  - CHAP
AB  - Notwithstanding strong media attention, operators of asylum seekers’ accommodation centers have been largely overlooked by academic debate. This article focuses on the role of these non-profit and for-profit organizations in the production of knowledge about the accommodation – and especially about the accommodated. Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted in Berlin in 2016 and 2017, the article argues that these organizations and their employees are a crucial part of reproducing a humanitarian and orientalist discourse that depicts the accommodated asylum seekers as backward and dependent. While supposedly lobbying for the interests of their occupants, they therefore participate in silencing these voices and legitimize the precarious accommodation system.
KW  - asylum accommodation centers
KW  - humanitarian government
KW  - third sector
KW  - othering
KW  - victimization
LA  - ger
PY  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-8376-4245-2
SP  - 133-146
T3  - Wissensproduktionen der Migration
TI  - Die Interessenvertretung der "Anderen". Unterkunftsbetreiber als neue Akteure der Wissensproduktion über Asylsuchende
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29306946
Y2  - 2024-11-22T16:08:32
ER  -