Accessing Resources in Arrival Neighbourhoods: How Foci-Aided Encounters Offer Resources to Newcomers

Hans, Nils; Hanhörster, Heike

doi:10.17645/up.v5i3.2977

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“…Often, brokers are migrants themselves and therefore have specific settlement expertise (Wessendorf and Phillimore 2019). The notion of 'arrival broker' draws on Xiang and Lindquist's (2014) definition of 'migrant brokers' as a 'party who mediates between other parties', for example between a newcomer and employer or a landlord (see also Hans and Hanho ¨rster 2020). Andreea's arrival broker was a Moldovan acquaintance who let her sleep on her living room floor for a fee, helped her with her national insurance number and with finding a school for her sons.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Andreea found an English class by asking at a Tamil community centre. Drawing on Small (2017), Hans and Hanho ¨rster (2020) describe such encounters as fleeting forms of resource transfer. Building on Thrift's (2005) work on urban repair, Hall and Smith (2015) have conceptualised these everyday acts of help and kindness as 'infrastructures of kindness', which persist despite or possibly because of an increasingly hostile discursive and policy environment against migrants.…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London

Wessendorf

2022

Migration Studies

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It is often assumed that migrants settle into contexts populated by national majorities or co-ethnics. Yet, new migrants often move into ‘arrival areas’, sites settled by earlier migrants of various backgrounds. Such arrival areas can typically be found at the margins of ‘arrival cities’ which have seen immigration (and emigration) over many decades. Past movements bequeath a wealth of ‘arrival infrastructures’, consisting of institutions, organisations, social spaces, and actors which specifically facilitate arrival. These include, for example, shops as information hubs, religious sites, language classes, and hairdressers established by people with migration backgrounds. This article looks at the interactions and transfer of knowledge and resources between long-established migrants and more recent newcomers through arrival infrastructures and within a marginalised urban area. By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in East London (UK) and using the example of two recently arrived female migrants, it investigates how newcomers access settlement information and the role played by arrival infrastructures in this process. It specifically focuses on newcomers who arrive with few social contacts and for whom physically visible arrival infrastructures like libraries and shops are particularly relevant. The article aims to open up debate about arrival infrastructures, their manifestation in different urban contexts, and their relation to both new forms of solidarity and new and ongoing forms of exploitation between long-established residents and newcomers.

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Section: Arrival Brokersmentioning

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‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London

Wessendorf

2022

Migration Studies

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“…The former focused on participants' social encounters within their UAG; within the latter, the interviewer led the participant through a name generator survey, where the participant (ego) was asked to identify specific people (alters) with whom they have exchanged certain resources. The types of resources inquired about (Table 2) stem from previous research on networks of exchange within UAGs (Resler & Hagolani-Albov, 2021) and resource transfers at the neighborhood scale (Hans & Hanhörster, 2020;Weck & Hanhörster, 2015). For each alter named by the ego, socio-demographic characteristics were recorded using the ego's free recall from memory.…”

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“…Furthermore, whereas social mixing policies focus predominantly on the neighborhood level, several scholars point to the significance of specific places within the neighborhood to promote intergroup contacts and resource transfer. Among few network studies paying attention to migration processes, Hans and Hanhörster (2020) point to newcomers' lack of locally embedded social networks and emphasize the subsequent significance of more "informal" ways of gaining access to certain kinds of resources-through interaction with other residents in semi-public spaces. Amin (2002) points to the importance of "local micro-publics of everyday interaction," such as sports or music clubs, theater groups, or urban gardens, in facilitating meaningful encounters.…”

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“We Don’t Meet [Any]where Else, Just Here”: Spatiality of Social Capital in Urban Allotments

Resler

Lobato

Candy

2022

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Unlike many other types of urban micro‐publics, allotment gardens provide a spatial opportunity for everyday social contact and encounters between heterogeneous user groups who share a common interest. While these micro‐publics have an evidenced capacity for generating social capital, scholars have questioned the extent to which social capital accessed within the allotment garden transcends its physical boundary—and thus the relevance of the micro‐public for social integration by fostering resource transfers between socially‐distant members of the population. In this article, we investigate for whom and to what extent social ties and resources accessed within the garden extend beyond its physical boundary and into other domains of urban life (i.e., scaling resource transfers) in Vantaa, the most multicultural city in Finland. Utilizing a mixed‐methods approach, we integrated crisp‐set qualitative comparative analysis and thematic analysis to explore which configurations of gardener characteristics relate to different resource transfers. We found that although new contacts—including boundary‐crossing contacts—were formed within the micro‐public, they evidenced little potential for scaling resource transfers across social difference, and in some cases even sparked intergroup tensions. These findings illustrate that despite the common interest shared by individuals within this micro‐public, contact between different groups alone is not necessarily sufficient to foster positive social encounters, scaling or otherwise. To improve scaling resource transfers and, more broadly, deepen social connections formed within the micro‐public network, facilitated intercultural dialogue by relevant institutions is needed.

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“…While there is a growing body of literature on the positive but also detrimental effects that living in these neighbourhoods can have on the arrival of migrant newcomers (El-Kayed et al, 2020;Hans & Hanhörster, 2020), the underlying factors and drivers influencing the function and dynamics of these neighbourhoods remain under-addressed. This finding concerns in particular the role of the housing market and its players in shaping the emergence and development of arrival neighbourhoods.…”

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The (co-)production of arrival neighbourhoods. Processes governing housing markets in three german cities

Hanhörster

Haase

Hans

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J Hous and the Built Environ

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In recent years, an emerging strand of research has focused on the role arrival neighbourhoods play for newcomers finding their footing in a new urban context. However, little is known about the underlying factors and drivers influencing their function(ing). This concerns in particular the role of the local housing market and its players in shaping their emergence and development. The paper deals with the question of how arrival neighbourhoods are (co-)produced by housing market players and how the latter are embedded in local governance structures. Looking at three German arrival neighbourhoods, the article illustrates how they are co-produced by ownership structures and the allocation practices of different housing market players. However, the strengthening of an arrival neighbourhood´s function not only depends on ownership structures but also on the capacities of municipal housing providers and civil society organisations, their strategic goals and the will for (concerted) action. Our findings show that arrival neighbourhoods can take on an important citywide function, enabling newcomers to gain a foothold in the city if three criteria are met: they are accessible/affordable for low-income groups, are equipped with infrastructures for newcomers, and are permeable with regard to residents’ relocation to other neighbourhoods.

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Accessing Resources in Arrival Neighbourhoods: How Foci-Aided Encounters Offer Resources to Newcomers

Cited by 11 publications

References 40 publications

‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London

‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London

“We Don’t Meet [Any]where Else, Just Here”: Spatiality of Social Capital in Urban Allotments

The (co-)production of arrival neighbourhoods. Processes governing housing markets in three german cities

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