Making cities through migration industries: Introduction to the special issue.

Migration industry has recently emerged as a lens through which to theorise the intertwinement of non-state actors who aim to provide diverse migration-pertaining services. However, while much of their work is done in and through cities, consequently (re)forming variegated urban landscapes, scholarly literature has thus far neglected the nexus between cities and the migration industry. In this special issue, we begin filling this gap by exploring the significance of migration industries - as a resurgent concept and an area of research from migration studies 一 for undec standing the urban. We start by reviewing the urbanisation of migration studies, highlighting its key limits. We then move on to introduce the migration industries debate, pointing out its existing implicit urban dimensions. We proceed by elaborating our main argument about why and how migration industries provide an especially productive lens for urbanists to consider. Specifically, we stress the three key analytical vantage points that the attention to migration industries enables us to see as central to contemporary city-making. These are its political-economic embeddedness, the urban-constitutive nature of trans-local connectivities, and how business-driven citymaking dovetails with more serendipitous, bottom-up shaping of the arrival city. Each of these points also describes how individual papers speak to them. We conclude by briefly outlining a research agenda for migration industries that is thoughtfully embroiled in the (post-)pandemic urban. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

移民产业最近已成为一个视角，通过它可以对旨在提供多样化移民相关服务的非国家行为 者之间的相互交织进行理论化。然而，虽然移民产业的大部分工作是在城市中并通过城市 完成的，并因此（重新）形成了多样化的城市景观，但迄今为止，学术文献一直忽视了城 市与移民产业之间的联系。在本期特刊中，我们开始通过探索移民产业（作为移民研究中 的一个复兴的概念和研究领域）对理解城市的重要性，从而填补这一空白。我们首先回顾 移民研究的城市化，强调其主要局限。接着，我们介绍关于移民产业的辩论，指出其现有 的隐含城市维度。随后，我们详细阐述我们的主要论点，即移民产业为何以及如何为城市 学者提供了一个特别富有成效的研究视角。具体来说，我们强调了三个关键的分析要点， 对移民产业的关注使我们能够看到作为当代城市营造核心的这三个要点。这些要点包括移 民产业的政治经济嵌入性，跨地方连接的城市构成性质，以及商业驱动的城市营造如何与 到达城市的更偶然的、自下而上的塑造相吻合。这些要点中的每一点还说明了每篇论文与 它们之间的关系。最后，我们简要概述了移民产业研究的议程，该议程深思熟虑地卷入了 （后）疫情城市中。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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