Cities, Urbanisation and Migration
Much of my work has been concerned with the material and imaginary production of urban space as it relates to encounters with difference and the forms of exclusion, inclusion and multiplied inequalities faced by migrants.
See also: social housing and intersections.
![Current research (2025-) with IMBRACE [Embracing Immigrant Knowledges for Just Climate Health Adaptation]: An ERC-funded project, led by Panagiota Kotsila, that analyzes the nexus between climate change, health, and immigration.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688cc32729d74d1c11b1ea41/1757495694415-HN4NJ1LNIBAQ0WHMTWDG/Screenshot%2B2025-09-10%2Bat%2B11.09.00.png)
Current research (2025-) with IMBRACE [Embracing Immigrant Knowledges for Just Climate Health Adaptation]: An ERC-funded project, led by Panagiota Kotsila, that analyzes the nexus between climate change, health, and immigration.
![MICOLL Report: Migration and housing: meeting refugees’ housing needs through collaborative housing programmes [Transition Agenda] 2023.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688cc32729d74d1c11b1ea41/0bf76d25-1b5d-43e3-8f5e-ab944fba2a32/micoll+logo.png)
MICOLL Report: Migration and housing: meeting refugees’ housing needs through collaborative housing programmes [Transition Agenda] 2023.
MICOLL Videos: Thematic conversations with collaborative housing residents and practitioners on possibilities for migrants. 2023.
Article: Román Velázquez, P., Pérez, N., Peluffo Soneyra, S., Wall, S.R. with Fernández Arrigoitia, M. and C. Cociña (2021) Latin Elephant: On language, translations and connections in an urban ethnic migrant movement. Radical Housing Journal, 3(2), pp. 183-197.
Editorial: Andrea Gibbons, Anna Richter, Antonis Vradis, David Madden, Debbie Humphry, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia & Michele Lancione (2020) ‘For the City yet to come’. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 24(1-2).
Editorial: Fernández Arrigoitia, M. (2019) ‘Revolt, chronic disaster and hope’ City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 23 (4-5): 405-410.
Book review forum: Knuth, S., Newman, K., Stehlin, J., Kamel, N., Fernández Arrigoitia, M., Guimond, C., & Kinder, K. (2018). DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City Without Services. The AAG Review of Books, 6(3), 218–230.
![Seminars: 'Housing with, through and against crisis: between production and destruction of homes' [Rutgers University and LSE], 2016-2017.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688cc32729d74d1c11b1ea41/1757496283914-WOWEVZ6SXGDG8WHCL2M5/img%2B020.jpg)
Seminars: 'Housing with, through and against crisis: between production and destruction of homes' [Rutgers University and LSE], 2016-2017.
Rearearch project: The Urbanisation Construction Migration Nexus in 5 Cities in South Asia (with Kumar, S.) LSE and DFID’s South Asia Research Hub, New Delhi, India, March 2016.
Edited book: Hall, S., Fernández Arrigoitia, M. and Dinardi, C. (2010) Writing Cities. LSE, MIT, Harvard Publication. ISSN: 2042-4361.
![Film review: Fernández Arrigoitia, M. (2008) ‘Chocolate City’, Graduate Journal of Social Science, 5(1). [Film available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1NkfATQvj4]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688cc32729d74d1c11b1ea41/1757495990914-H0GA7FOFEQBXJEVIJ12A/Screenshot%2B2025-09-10%2Bat%2B10.56.41.png)
Film review: Fernández Arrigoitia, M. (2008) ‘Chocolate City’, Graduate Journal of Social Science, 5(1). [Film available at> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1NkfATQvj4]