Migration is an inherently spatial phenomenon as it depicts the processes and effects of humans' movement from one place to another. Recent debates in geographical migration research highlight the need to adequately understand how the distinct nature of space and place shape migration and arrival processes. Taking up this call, this contribution proposes to bring together more‐than‐relational approaches to space in geography and the ‘local turn’ in research on migration and integration. Drawing on the empirical example of refugee reception and integration in the city of Rostock in Germany, the contribution explores how space, it's persisting and changing elements, impacts migration flows and constrains or supports migrants' arrival processes. The analysis works along three aspects of more‐than‐relational approaches to space, namely the role of persistent spatial aspects, such as the topography or national borders, and their interplay with relational space; the impact of spatially confined administrative units and regional embeddedness; and the temporal depth of space. The contribution closes by proposing two points how a more‐than‐relational approach can enhance the conceptualisation of space in geographical migration studies: (1) the mutual constitution of relational and non‐relational aspects of space into a specific space shaping migration flows through their interplay, and (2) the openness of a ‘phase space’ approach towards future developments admitting that the inner logic of a place can develop and change.

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使用“相空间”视角了解当地难民接待的抵达背景

迁移是一种本质上的空间现象，因为它描述了人类从一个地方移动到另一个地方的过程和影响。最近地理移民研究的争论强调需要充分了解空间和地点的独特性质如何塑造移民和到达过程。响应这一号召，本文提出将地理学中的空间研究方法与移民和融合研究中的“本地转向”结合起来。该贡献借鉴了德国罗斯托克市难民接收和融合的经验例子，探讨了空间作为持久和变化的要素如何影响移民流动并限制或支持移民的抵达过程。该分析沿着超越关系的空间方法的三个方面进行，即持久空间方面的作用，例如地形或国界，以及它们与关系空间的相互作用；空间有限的行政单位和区域嵌入的影响；以及空间的时间深度。本文最后提出了两点，即超越关系的方法如何能够增强地理移民研究中的空间概念化：（1）将空间的关系和非关系方面相互构成一个特定的空间，通过它们的形状塑造移民流。 （2）对未来发展的“相空间”方法的开放性，承认一个地方的内在逻辑可以发展和变化。