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Infrastructuring Arrival

Envisioning the Migration-Integration Nexus Beyond Crisis

Karel Arnaut (Editor), Luce Beeckmans (Editor), Bruno Meeus (Editor),

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Category: Architecture and Urban Planning, Migration Studies, Social Science, Urban Studies

Language: English

DOI: 10.11116/9789461666994

ISBN: 9789462704930

Publication date: November 16, 2026

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Category: Architecture and Urban Planning, Migration Studies, Social Science, Urban Studies

Language: English

DOI: 10.11116/9789461666994

ISBN: 9789461666994

Publication date: November 16, 2026

COMING SOON

Funded by: KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access
Open Book Collective
Horizon2020

Category: Architecture and Urban Planning, Migration Studies, Social Science, Urban Studies

Language: English

DOI: 10.11116/9789461666994

ISBN: 9789461666987

Publication date: November 16, 2026

COMING SOON

Funded by: KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access
Open Book Collective
Horizon2020

Summary
About the Editors
Contributing Authors

A bottom-up perspective on how newcomers do integration through arrival infrastructuring.

Based on extensive ethnographic research across diverse European contexts, this volume repositions migrants’ arrival not as an exception or a crisis, but as a constitutive condition of contemporary societies. The lively, interactive processes through which newcomers, together with a wide range of actors, rebuild and transform the socio-material settings in which they arrive and carve out their future belonging, are captured in the concept of ‘arrival infrastructuring’.

By foregrounding the everyday agency in arrival infrastructuring, this volume proposes a ‘minor integrations’ framework that re-embeds the contested term ‘integration’ within an alternative discourse of world-building, in the process closely attending to the structural forces that limit and channel such agency. The ‘minor’ in ‘minor integrations’ highlights the continuous work of arrival infrastructuring in our contemporary migration societies: the everyday practices of socialising and social reproduction through which future belonging is created, and the urban fabric maintained, repaired and transformed.

Infrastructuring Arrival is a companion volume to the Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit. While the latter offers practical guidance for practitioners, policymakers and community builders, this book develops a deeper conceptual and analytical understanding of arrival infrastructuring.

Karel Arnaut

Karel Arnaut is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. He teaches and conducts research on migration and mobility in relation to language use, diversity and inequality.

Luce Beeckmans

Luce Beeckmans is Research Professor in Urbanism and Migration at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven, and vice-director of the KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI).

Bruno Meeus

Bruno Meeus is Associate Professor at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. He teaches at the Institute for Social Work and coordinates research on housing precarity within the Centre for Social Innovation.

Shila Anaraki

Paschalis Arvanitidis

Paolo Boccagni

Martina Bovo

Martina Bovo is a post-doctoral researcher at IUAV University of Venice and a contract professor at Politecnico di Milano. She held a post-doctoral position at KU Leuven’s Department of Architecture during the making of this book.

Laura Guérin

Mary Hogan

Mary Hogan is a scientific collaborator at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Architecture of KU Leuven.

Tina Gudrun Jensen

Carolien Lubberhuizen

Tamlyn Monson

Karen Fog Olwig

George Papagiannitsis

Lucie Revilla

Dounia Salamé

Dounia Salamé is a social worker and PhD researcher at the Department of Architecture of KU Leuven.

Marhabo Saparova

Cornelia Tippel

Charalampos Tsavdaroglou

Karel Arnaut

Luce Beeckmans

Bruno Meeus

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