ABSTRACT
In West Berlin, Kreuzberg was the central district of the squatting movement in the early 1980s almost half of the squatted houses were located there. At the same time, it was also a migrant neighborhood. This chapter discusses two squatting experiences of migrant women from Turkey in the early 1980s in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Today the housing struggle takes place within the much more complex field of finance capitalism and globalized neoliberalism. The district of Kreuzberg turned from a working-class neighborhood of decaying buildings to an attractive district with cafes and galleries, in which investors do see more renovation and potential speculation to accumulate capital. Today migrants struggle against the rising rents from their neighborhood which was revitalised on their labor, love and relationships. An analysis of the expulsion of migrants from the city centre while rethinking the categories of class, race, and gender together is possible if the history of urban struggles are rewritten from the struggles of migrants.
