Multiple Precarisation: The Living Situation of Eastern European Migrants in Urban Social Spaces: Using the example of the two Duisburg districts of Marxloh and Hochfeld

Abstract

This study explores the phenomenon of multiple precarisation among East European migrants in Duisburg’s districts of Hochfeld and Marxloh. Drawing on participatory research, the project uncovers how precarious employment, unstable housing, and limited access to social benefits interlock to produce sustained precarity. Institutional and market-based mechanisms reinforce socioeconomic marginalisation. Administrative practices, including bureaucratic barriers and forced evictions, further entrench exclusion under the guise of 'security risks'. The concept of multiple precarisation captures these interwoven dynamics that operate beyond conventional categories of discrimination. Our findings highlight the urgent need for policy interventions that go beyond problematizing migration and instead address the structural conditions.