'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
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“图书馆就像母亲”：东伦敦的入境基础设施和新移民
DOI：
10.1093/migration/mnab051
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Wessendorf S
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作者：
Wessendorf S
人们通常认为移民定居在少数民族或同族裔居住的环境中。然而，新移民经常进入“到达区”，即由不同背景的早期移民定居的地方。此类抵达区域通常位于“抵达城市”的边缘，几十年来，这些城市已经出现了移民（和移民）。过去的运动留下了大量的“抵达基础设施”，其中包括专门为抵达提供便利的机构、组织、社会空间和行动者。例如，其中包括作为信息中心的商店、宗教场所、语言课程以及由具有移民背景的人开设的理发店。本文着眼于长期移民和新移民之间通过抵达基础设施和边缘化城市地区的知识和资源的互动和转移。通过借鉴东伦敦（英国）的民族志实地调查，并以两名最近抵达的女性移民为例，它调查了新移民如何获取定居信息以及抵达基础设施在此过程中所发挥的作用。它特别关注那些社交联系很少的新移民，对他们来说，图书馆和商店等物理可见的抵达基础设施特别重要。本文旨在就入境基础设施、它们在不同城市环境中的表现，以及它们与长期居住的居民和新移民之间新的团结形式和新的、持续的剥削形式的关系展开辩论。
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.