Description:

ReROOT focuses on processes of recent migrants’ settlement, interconnections and belonging through the concept of arrival infrastructures. Arrival infrastructures are produced by various actors and shape migrants’ pathways into employment, housing, education and training, public services, religious, cultural or leisure activities, neighbourhood organisations etc. In nine settings in Europe, ReROOT documents processes of arrival, investigates diverse strategies for intervening in the arrival infrastructure and translates these insights into workbooks, tools and educative material for civil society organisations, professionals, and policy makers.

With Brussels and Amsterdam as empirical vantagepoints, your PhD project will focus on the use and co-construction of urbanwelcoming infrastructures by/for ‘transit migrants’ from East Africa and theMiddle East. This includes but is not limited to the access to andco-construction of precarious housing and the building of ‘mobile commons’ ofcare, legal advice, social networking and subaltern economic activities.

Your tasks include: