"I Have to Start All over Again." The Role of Institutional and Personal Arrival Infrastructures in Refugees' Home-making Processes in Amsterdam

In this study, we take the concept of arrival infrastructures as a starting point to explore refugees' home-making processes in Amsterdam. This concept allows us to look beyond formal infrastructures set up for refugees and to take a closer look at all (f)actors playing a role in refugees' processes of "starting all over again". Drawing on participatory ethnographic research in a community centre for refugees, we describe the role of institutional as well as personal infrastructures in material and affective terms and show how these are related to refugees' sense of belonging in the city. We i... Mehr ...