Arrival Infrastructures

307 Pages·2019·4.12 MB·English

by  Bruno Meeus

Edited by Bruno Meeus,
Karel Arnaut, Bas van Heur
ARRIVAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Migration and Urban Social Mobilities
Arrival Infrastructures
Bruno Meeus · Karel Arnaut
Bas van Heur
Editors
Arrival Infrastructures
Migration and Urban Social Mobilities
Editors
Bruno Meeus Bas van Heur
University of Fribourg Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Fribourg, Switzerland Brussels, Belgium
Karel Arnaut
University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
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C
ontents
1 Migration and the Infrastructural Politics
of Urban Arrival 1
Bruno Meeus, Bas van Heur and Karel Arnaut
2 Welcome to the City? Discursive and Administrative
Dimensions of Hamburg’s Arrival Infrastructures
Around 1900 33
Charlotte Räuchle
3 NGOs as Arrival Infrastructures: Pathways
to Inclusion for Immigrants in the U.S. and Canada 53
Mara Sidney
4 Governing Newcomers’ Conduct in the Arrival
Infrastructures of Brussels 81
Eva Swyngedouw
5 Rebordering Europe from the Margins Since the 1970s:
A History of a Layered Arrival Infrastructure for the
Mobile Poor in Amsterdam 103
Anna Nikolaeva
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6 Migration and the Resourceful Neighborhood:
Exploring Localized Resources in Urban Zones
of Transition 131
Elise Schillebeeckx, Stijn oosterlynck and Pascal De Decker
7 “Soft” Urban Arrival Infrastructures in the Periphery of
Metropolitan Areas: The Role of Social Networks
for Sub-Saharan Newcomers in Aalst, Belgium 153
Didier Boost and Stijn oosterlynck
8 First Arrivals: The Socio-Material Development
of Arrival Infrastructures in Thuringia 179
Anna Marie Steigemann
9 Arrival In-Between: Analyzing the Lived Experiences
of Different Forms of Accommodation for Asylum
Seekers in Norway 207
Ragne Øwre Thorshaug
10 The Politics of Temporariness and the Materiality
of Refugee Camps 229
Lucas oesch
11 From Forced Migration to Forced Arrival: The
Campization of Refugee Accommodation in European
Cities 249
René Kreichauf
Erratum to: “Soft” Urban Arrival Infrastructures in the
Periphery of Metropolitan Areas: The Role of Social
Networks for Sub-Saharan Newcomers in Aalst, Belgium E1
Didier Boost and Stijn oosterlynck
Index 281
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otes on ontributors
Karel Arnaut is an Associate Professor at the Interculturalism,
Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC), as well as
Program Director of Anthropology, both at KU Leuven, Belgium. He
has published on migration and authochthony in Côte d’Ivoire, on
migration and superdiversity, and is editor-in-chief of the journal African
Diaspora.
Didier Boost is a researcher at oASeS (Centre on Inequalities, Poverty,
Social Exclusion and the City) and CELLo (Centre for Longitudinal
and Life Course Studies). He is also a teaching assistant in the Master
of Social Work and Welfare Studies course at the University of Antwerp,
Belgium. His current Ph.D. research focuses on the evaluation of social
work practice from a critical realist perspective, and the study of the role
of the social work profession in the context of both social assistance and
healthcare.
Pascal De Decker is an Associate Professor at the Department of
Architecture at KU Leuven, Belgium. He holds degrees in sociology
(MSc.), urban planning (MSc.), and political and social sciences (Ph.D.).
He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Housing and the
Built Environment.
René Kreichauf is an FWo fellow at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban
Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and an associated Ph.D. student
of the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität
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Berlin. His Ph.D. project involves investigating the arrival and integra-
tion of refugees and asylum seekers in European and North American
cities. His publication and research activities further focus on urban
transformation trends, declining cities, small town studies, social-spatial
inequalities, and urban ethnic politics.
Bruno Meeus is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the
University of Fribourg (Switzerland), as well as an associate researcher
in the Cities and Newcomers project at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium.
Anna Nikolaeva is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and at
Utrecht University. She is interested in how mobilities are experienced,
given meaning to, and governed in contemporary cities and societies.
She has written about airports, mobility and urban public space, mobility
and social capital, and transitions to sustainable mobility. Previously, she
has carried out research and has taught at Royal Holloway, University
of London, and VU University Amsterdam. She was also a visiting
scholar at City University of New York. She holds a Ph.D. from Aarhus
University, Denmark.
Lucas Oesch is a research associate at the University of Luxembourg.
He was previously a visiting research fellow at the universities of
Manchester, Lyon, and Neuchâtel, and a postdoctoral fellow of the
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). He holds a Ph.D. from the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
in Geneva. His research focuses on forced migration and urban space.
Stijn Oosterlynck is an Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the
University of Antwerp. He is the chair of the sociological research center
oASeS (Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City) and of the
Antwerp Urban Studies Institute. His research focuses on new forms of
solidarity in diversity, local social innovation and welfare state restructur-
ing, urban diversity policies, and civil society innovation.
Charlotte Räuchle is a researcher at the Institute for Migration Research
and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the Universität osnabrück, Germany
(since 2018). Previously, she was a Ph.D. student at the Geography
Institute, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She holds a Master’s degree
in cultural anthropology and history from the Universität Hamburg, and
an MSc. in urban studies from University College London. Charlotte’s
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research and publication activities center around migration and urban
development, migrant entrepreneurship, and the historical development
of local migration regimes.
Elise Schillebeeckx is a researcher in the Department of Architecture at
KU Leuven, and in the Department of Sociology at the University of
Antwerp, Belgium. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. on arrival neigh-
borhoods for migrants in Belgium, and is also working on research pro-
jects on residential mobility and urban and rural change.
Mara Sidney is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers
University, Newark, U.S., and co-directs the Global Urban Studies/
Urban Systems Joint Ph.D. Program. Her research focuses on intersec-
tions of urban politics, race/ethnicity, immigration, and public policy.
Specifically, she studies the roles of advocacy groups and NGos in urban
governance and public policy. She engages social construction, and insti-
tutionalist and multilevel governance theoretical approaches.
Anna Marie Steigemann is an Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher
at the Chair of International Urbanism at the School of Architecture
and Planning, Technical University Berlin. Her research interests revolve
broadly around migration and urban studies. In her Ph.D., she explored
the concrete places where neighborly interactions take place in diversified
urban neighborhoods, and how these interactions—i.e., social contacts
and connections between and among various groups of residents—affect
the sense of belonging and the local social life.
Eva Swyngedouw is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cosmopolis
Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She
received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Her
research interests can be situated in the domain of urban studies, cul-
tural sociology, and qualitative methods. Her dissertation project was an
ethnographic study of citizenship-making practices at immigrant recep-
tion offices in the divided city of Brussels. Currently, she is working on a
research project that deals with the diversity of work in the creative and
cultural industries of Brussels.
Ragne Øwre Thorshaug is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of
Architecture and Fine Arts of the NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, work-
ing in the research project “What buildings do: the effect of the phys-
ical environment on the quality of life of asylum seekers.” She has a
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background in geography, and in her Ph.D. she explores residents’ lived
experiences of the housing conditions in reception centers for asylum
seekers.
Bas van Heur is an 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 Program Director of Master
degrees in urban studies.