Abstract (eng)
Within the past five years, Austria has been affected by the refugee movement. Around 100.000 persons have been granted forms of international protection such as asylum, subsidiary protection and humanitarian protection in the years between 2015 and 2019. In the meanwhile, Vienna is experiencing a housing crisis that imposes great difficulties to housing access especially for the vulnerable group of refugees. This circumstance leads to forms of shared housing, that are studied in this thesis both theoretically and empirically. Thus, three types of collaborative housing are identified: living communities with single bedrooms, living communities with multi-person bedrooms and living communities with sleeping spaces. Furthermore, specific forms of collaborative housing with family members are added and questions of the meaning of shared housing are asked. While magnitudes of exclusion and precarity are marked, forms of self-initiative and solidarity are clearly observed, too. The thesis aims to stress the proactive role of the interviewees and their self-created subsystems of housing. Though, consequences of current and past housing experiences are scrutinised as well. Conclusions are drawn, that concern not only the empirical living situation of the residents but also the theoretic state of the art of housing for refugees.