ABSTRACT
In December 2012, a group of refugees and activists occupied a nearly vacant school in Ohlauer Strae 12, Berlin, and named it as 'Refugee Strike House'. These refugee squatters had been occupying the public square in Kreuzberg since October 2012, after participating in the 'Refugee Protest March to Berlin' from September 8 to October 6, 2012, against racist immigration and asylum laws. The square Oranienplatz was completely evicted in April 2014 when one portion of the refugees agreed to move to other facilities provided by the authorities and another group occupied the vacant school. One floor of the occupied school in Ohlauer Strae 12 was converted into a woman-only refugee space called the international women's space (IWS). Some of the squatter refugees who resisted the eviction continued to stay in the building. Before eviction the building housed more than 250 refugees, while currently most of the space in this building is used by a private security service.
