Arrival Infrastructures: Migration and Urban Social Mobilities

Arrival Infrastructures: Migration and Urban Social Mobilities
ISBN-10
3319911678
ISBN-13
9783319911670
Category
Social Science
Pages
307
Language
English
Published
2018-06-16
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Bruno Meeus, Bas van Heur, Karel Arnaut

Description

​This volume introduces a strategic interdisciplinary research agenda on arrival infrastructures. Arrival infrastructures are those parts of the urban fabric within which newcomers become entangled on arrival, and where their future local or translocal social mobilities are produced as much as negotiated. Challenging the dominance of national normativities, temporalities, and geographies of “arrival,” the authors scrutinize the position and potential of cities as transnationally embedded places of arrival. Critically interrogating conceptions of migrant arrival as oriented towards settlement and integration, the volume directs attention to much more diverse migration trajectories that shape our cities today. Each chapter examines how migrants, street-level bureaucrats, local residents, and civil society actors build—with the resources they have at hand—the infrastructures that accommodate, channel, and govern arrival.

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