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Based on the authors' long-term field research on low-skilled labor migration from China and Indonesia, this article establishes that more than ever labor migration is intensively mediated. Migration infrastructure – the systematically interlinked technologies, institutions, and actors that facilitate and condition mobility – serves as a concept to unpack the process of mediation. Migration can be more clearly conceptualized through a focus on infrastructure rather than on state policies, the labor market, or migrant social networks alone. The article also points to a trend of "infrastructural involution," in which the interplay between different dimensions of migration infrastructure make it self-perpetuating and self-serving, and impedes rather than enhances people's migratory capability. This explains why labor migration has become both more accessible and more cumbersome in many parts of Asia since the late 1990s. The notion of migration infrastructure calls for research that is less fixated on migration as behavior or migrants as the primary subject, and more concerned with broader societal transformations.

International audience The City of Zion is one of the numerous pentecostal churches blossoming in France in the immigration fields. Initiated in decembre 2000 by a Congolese prophet, its members are now about sicty coming from West Indies and french-speaking African countries. From the first of the prophet activities to the crisis that put an, end to his legitimacy, this study has been ficused on the formation of the young leaders to whom has been left the administration of the assembly. This gives us indications on the establishment modes of a world pentecotism that influences greatly, by its African expression, the new lecture of the migration path. ; La Cité de Sion fait partie des nombreuses Églises pentecôtistes émergeant en France sur le terreau de l'immigration. Fondée en décembre 2000 à l'initiative d'un prophète congolais, ses effectifs se sont stabilisés autour d'une soixantaine de fidèles issus principalement des Antilles et de l'Afrique francophone. Des balbutiements de l'activité du prophète à la crise de légitimité qui finit par le disqualifier, mon attention s'est portée tout particulièrement sur la formation des jeunes leaders auxquels il devait à terme confier l'administration routinière de son assemblée. Ce suivi longitudinal renseigne sur les modalités d'implantation d'un pentecôtisme mondialisé qui, dans son expression africaine, contribue largement, à travers un prophétisme ambiant, à la retraduction du trajet migratoire. ; La Ciudad de Sion forma parte de las numerosas iglesias pentecostales que emergen en Francia en el ambiente de la inmigración. Fundada en diciembre de 2000 por iniciativa de un profeta congoleño, sus miembros se estabilizaron alrededor de una centena de fieles de las Antillas y de África francófona. Desde los balbuceos de la actividad del profeta a la crisis de legitimidad que termina por descalificarla, mi atención se dentró particularmente en la formación de los jóvenes líderes a los cuales él debía confiar finalmente la administración rutinaria de su asamblea. Este ...