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Abstract：
This paper investigates the multi-layered barriers asylum seekers face in accessing secure and adequate housing in a host society through the case of Catalonia (Spain). While the existing literature mainly focuses on the effects of micro-level factors, we argue that these need to be analysed in combination with meso-level actors and macro-structural phenomena. Drawing on an exploratory survey of 300 international protection applicants and 60 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and asylum seekers, we analyse their exposure to different dimensions of housing precariousness. Our research finds that, although certain individual characteristics such as age, sex and origin remain relevant in explaining housing pathways, these factors are strongly mediated by the role of NGOs and support networks, and by the structural features of the asylum system and housing market. We conclude that the complex interactions of these factors result in deeply unstable and fragmented housing trajectories that contribute to high levels of disorientation, precariousness, and exclusion among those seeking accommodation.
摘要：
本文通过加泰罗尼亚（西班牙）的案例，调查了寻求庇护者在东道国社会中获得安全和适当住房时面临的多层障碍。虽然现有文献主要集中在微观层面因素的影响，我们认为，这些需要结合中观层面的行为者和宏观结构现象进行分析。利用对300名国际保护申请人的探索性调查以及对利益攸关方和寻求庇护者的60次半结构化访谈，我们分析他们暴露于不同维度的住房不稳定。我们的研究发现,虽然某些个体特征，如年龄，性别和出身在解释住房途径方面仍然相关，这些因素是由非政府组织和支持网络的作用强烈介导的，以及庇护系统和住房市场的结构特征。我们得出的结论是，这些因素的复杂相互作用导致了非常不稳定和支离破碎的住房轨迹，这些轨迹导致了高度的迷失方向，不稳定,和排斥那些寻求住宿的人。
