In this article, we focus on ways in which ‘internal migration industries’ shape the housing location of refugees in cities. Based on empirical studies in Halle, Schwerin, Berlin, Stuttgart and Dresden, we bring two issues together. First, we show how a specific financialised accumulation model of renting out privatised public housing stock to disadvantaged parts of the population has emerged that increasingly targets migrant tenants. With the growing immigration of refugees to Germany since 2015, this model has intensified. Second, we discuss how access to housing is formed by informal agents. While housing is almost inaccessible for households on social welfare, the situation is even worse for refugees. This situation has given rise to a new ‘shadow economy’ for housing that offers services with dubious quality for excessive fees. Bringing these two issues together, we argue that housing provision to refugees has become a new business opportunity. This has given rise to a broad variety of ‘internal migration industries’ that provide the housing infrastructure, but also control access to housing. This not only results in new opportunities for profit extraction, but actively shapes new patterns of segregation and the concentration of refugees in particular types of disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

在本文中，我们关注“内部移民产业”如何影响城市中难民的住房位置。基于在哈勒、什未林、柏林、斯图加特和德累斯顿的实证研究，我们将两个问题放在一起。首先，我们展示了一种特定的金融化积累模型是如何出现的，将私有化的公共住房出租给弱势群体，越来越多地针对移民租户。自 2015 年以来，随着越来越多的难民移民到德国，这种模式得到了加强。其次，我们讨论了非正式代理人如何形成获得住房的机会。虽然领取社会福利的家庭几乎无法获得住房，但难民的情况更糟。这种情况催生了一种新的住房“影子经济”，它以高昂的费用提供质量可疑的服务。将这两个问题放在一起，我们认为向难民提供住房已成为一个新的商机。这催生了各种各样的“内部移民产业”，它们提供住房基础设施，但也控制住房的获取。这不仅带来了新的利润提取机会，而且积极塑造了新的隔离模式和难民集中在特定类型的弱势社区。