'We prefer our Dutch': International students' housing experiences in the Netherlands

This article investigates how international students find and maintain housing and what constraints they have to deal with in the process. It reveals how the interplay between personal characteristics and housing-market features shapes housing biographies and unequally disadvantages certain internat...

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Published in:Housing studies 2021-07, Vol.36 (6), p.822-842
Main Authors: Fang, Christian, van Liempt, Ilse
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Interviews
Personal characteristics
Qualitative analysis
Students
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