Overview
Differentiates between various dimensions of struggles in the process of arrival
Analyzes current trends in asylum and urban development
Directs attention to much more diverse migration trajectories that shape our cities today
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bruno Meeus is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, as well as Associate Researcher in the Cities and Newcomers Project at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Karel Arnaut is Associate Professor at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC), as well as Program Director of Anthropology, both at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Bas van Heur is Assistant Professor of Human Geography and Urban Studies, Director of the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, and Director of the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is also Programme Director of Master degrees in Urban Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arrival Infrastructures
Book Subtitle: Migration and Urban Social Mobilities
Editors: Bruno Meeus, Karel Arnaut, Bas van Heur
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91167-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91166-3Published: 29 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08190-4Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91167-0Published: 16 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 299
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Migration, Demography, Social Structure, Social Inequality