Arrival brokers as a key component of the arrival infrastructure: how established migrants support newcomers

Abstract. In recent years, numerous studies have stressed the importance of established migrants helping newcomers access settlement information. This article focuses on everyday practices these so-called “arrival brokers” in supporting their initial arrival process. The analysis combines theoretical strands infrastructures”, brokers, and concept solidarity. qualitative empirical research an neighbourhood German city Dortmund shows that brokers support by sharing arrival-specific knowledge structuring infrastructure network. These can be attributed to a situational place-based using perspective for analysing migrants' brokering helps us understand transformative power wielded themselves making, shaping, maintaining structures.