Emplacement in hostile spaces: hopeless notes – commentary to van Liempt

In her keynote lecture from the Finnish Geography Days in 2022 Ilse van Liempt offers a hopeful and useful approach to understanding refugees’ processes of belonging home-making. She focuses on arrival infrastructures, which encompass both formal informal structures that greet migrants as they arrive. Important part these is emplacement, where focus can turn into how themselves become creating infrastructures making home new environments, including public spaces inhabit. My commentary draws my experiences United Kingdom (UK) hostile bordering practices, I am reminded hostility, policing migration practices are not only present, but often framing infrastructures. Secondly, reflect meaning here: patriarchal heteronormative follow migrant their route, well practice for arrivals. Hence some, itself becomes prison, site violence or place non-belonging. Finally, emergence techno-borderscape (Godin & Doná 2020) has moved large parts support represent, possibilities home-making online, with many simultaneously having reduced access digital spaces.