Abstract
Abstract. Recent debates on arrival cities, neighborhoods, or other scales of local contexts tend to focus on aspects of local areas which support new migrants in accessing resources such as social networks, organizations, and other kinds of local infrastructure that give access to (multilingual) information, housing options, first jobs, or a sense of belonging and
conviviality. These features are often concentrated in long-standing
immigrant neighborhoods. In this contribution, we compare different kinds of local infrastructure in two German local contexts – in an established
immigrant neighborhood and a rather new immigrant neighborhood – and how
they have shaped the arrival of refugees who have come to Germany since 2014/15. We emphasize the need to understand infrastructures and the way they shape arrival, first, in a multidimensional way that, second, comprises inclusive as well as exclusive aspects of local infrastructures. This, third, includes the need to specify for which category of people infrastructures work in an inclusive or exclusive way as they work differently along a range of social
boundaries.
Funder
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Subject
Earth-Surface Processes,Anthropology,Geography, Planning and Development,Global and Planetary Change