Migration and the Infrastructural Politics of Urban Arrival

Meeus, Bruno; Heur, Bas van; Arnaut, Karel

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91167-0_1

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“…As such homemaking needs to take the subjective dimension into account and needs to be seen as a transnational phenomenon. We move beyond the 'territorial trap' that treats small towns and neighbourhoods as 'delimited containers' (Meeus, van Heur, and Arnaut 2019) and do not restrict the scope to the current house and the neighbourhood when we discuss homemaking and perceptions of belonging amongst resettled refugees in small Dutch towns.…”

Section: Homemaking and Place Attachment Amongst Resettled Refugeesmentioning

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Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands

Liempt

Miellet

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Section: Homemaking and Place Attachment Amongst Resettled Refugeesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands

Liempt

Miellet

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…The concept of infrastructure has experienced a growing use in migration studies with the literature on “arrival infrastructure” studying the interaction between the local environment and immigrant integration (Meeus et al 2019 ). Anthropologists such as Kleinman ( 2014 ) also refer to infrastructure to describe both the physical environment and the web of social interactions that allow precarious migrants to get by.…”

Section: Diaspora Infrastructurementioning

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Do EU Member States Care About their Diasporas’ Access to Social Protection? A Comparison of Consular and Diaspora Policies across EU27

Lafleur

Vintila

2020

IMISCOE Research Series

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Despite the growing literature on sending states’ engagement with their populations abroad, little is known so far about their role in helping the diaspora deal with social risks. As argued in this chapter, this is mainly because past studies on sending states’ policies and institutions for the diaspora have failed to systematically focus on social protection, while also ignoring that regional integration dynamics often constrain domestic responses to the welfare needs of nationals residing abroad. This volume aims to fill this research gap by comparatively examining the type of diaspora infrastructure through which EU Member States address the vulnerabilities faced by populations abroad in five core areas of social protection: health care, pensions, family, unemployment, and economic hardship. Drawing on data from two original surveys with national experts, we operationalize the concepts of descriptive infrastructure for non-residents (i.e. the presence of diaspora-related institutions) and substantive infrastructure (i.e. policies that provide and facilitate access to welfare for nationals abroad) in order to propose a new typology of states’ engagement with their diaspora in the area of social protection.

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“…Typically, ethnic urban neighbourhoods also offer refugee‐tailored services, products and organisations beyond their own ethnic communities. In the conceptualisation of Meeus and colleagues (2019), these neighbourhoods provide refugees with ‘infrastructures of arrival’. Defined as those parts of the urban fabric with which newcomers interact upon arrival and in which their future social mobility is negotiated, infrastructures of arrival can be part of governmental programmes specifically targeting newcomers, such as language courses or buddy projects, but can also be situated in civil society networks, ethnic self‐organizations and faith‐based practices of solidarity (Meeus et al .…”

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From Asylum to Post‐Arrival Geographies: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Belgium

Moussawi

Schuermans

2020

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper investigates the spatial patterns of concentration and dispersal of recently arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq in a country without stringent dispersal policies, Belgium. In order to capture both the mobility and the immobility of refugees, we propose the term “post‐arrival geographies” for these patterns. Drawing on data from the national population register, we demonstrate that many refugees move to urban and suburban locations after they have been granted refugee status. Through a comparison with the geographies of the Belgian asylum system and with the spatial distribution of Syrians and Iraqis who arrived earlier, we also explore some explanatory hypotheses for these post‐arrival geographies. The observation that dispersal takes place in Belgium in an indirect way ‐ through the location of asylum centres and local reception structures – makes us endorse pleas for more attention to institutional contexts and local settings in refugee studies.

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Migration and the Infrastructural Politics of Urban Arrival

Cited by 82 publications

References 116 publications

Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands

Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands

Do EU Member States Care About their Diasporas’ Access to Social Protection? A Comparison of Consular and Diaspora Policies across EU27

From Asylum to Post‐Arrival Geographies: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Belgium

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