Abstract: This chapter coins the notion of “arrival infrastructure,” and focuses on two important conceptual innovations. Drawing on debates in migration studies, the chapter differentiates between the politics of directionality, the politics of temporality, and the politics of subjectivity, in order to open up the different dimensions of struggles in the process of arrival. While engaging with critical debates on the current and potential role of cities and the multi-scalar state in shaping processes of arrival, the chapter then gradually moves towa...
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Political economy