Arrival cities and the mobility of concepts

The status of any arrival city is far from stable, being continuously reworked by state policy, geopolitics, economic fluctuations or localised events that rupture destabilise what came before. diversifications and differential inclusions are examined in this special issue attest to the complexities cities, where very nature ‘arrival’ open interpretation subject diverse temporal experiences migration regimes. By approaching concept ‘arrival city’ as a heuristic moving between literal figurative realms mobility, I draw out some core contributions Migrant-led Diversification Differential Inclusion Arrival Cities Across Asia-Pacific. This includes: notion arrival; geographies experience transience non-linearity; intimacy encounter.