The Arrival Grid: Public Space as Migrant Social Infrastructure in Central Lisbon

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte is pleased to invite you to an Open Lecture of the Master's programme in Urban Studies, entitled "The Arrival Grid: Public Space as Migrant Social Infrastructure in Central Lisbon"

The event will take place on 30 March at 18:00 at Iscte, Building 3, Room AA2.29 and will feature a presentation by Professor Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro, examining how central urban public spaces in Lisbon function as infrastructures of arrival that mediate migrant integration in everyday life and space.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at Martim Moniz Square and Benformoso Street, this presentation introduces the concept of the 'arrival grid'—a socio-spatial framework comprising nodes, lines, and layers, theorizing how migrants shape the city beyond formal integration channels across multiple scales. The lecture speaks to wider debates on migration, public space, everyday life, and the right to the city.