Infrastructures are productive ethnographic entry points for understanding evictions. Three analytic strategies have informed the research on the entanglements of evictions and infrastructures. We outline a fourth, centered on evictees’ infra-making. A relatively frequent occurrence after evictions in central neighborhoods in Bucharest, Romania, has been that evicted families camp out in front of “their” former houses. Drawing on a case of this kind, we suggest that the way to understand resistance to being rendered abject is to invite ethnographers to foreground the disconnections, reconnections, and networked ties that the evicted mobilize post-eviction for both survival and protest. That means paying attention not only to material socio-technical assemblages, but also to preparedness in anticipation of eviction, post-eviction claims, and biopolitical expectations of care by the state. Social infrastructures, some neighborhood relations, access to networked connectivity at the workplace, and urban commons such as public water fountains gain heightened importance after eviction.
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