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Book SynopsisThis dynamic Handbook unpacks the entanglements between the two notions of home and migration, which illuminate the lived experiences of (in)voluntary mobilities and the contested terrain of inclusion and belonging.
Drawing on cross-disciplinary contributions from leading international scholars, the Handbook advances research on the social study of home in relation to migration, refugee, displacement, and diaspora studies. It investigates the interplay between the notions of house and home, examining the relevance of home as a category of both analysis and practice. With a global and comparative range of case studies and examples, chapters bridge disciplines in unprecedented ways, exploring the existential, epistemological, and political implications of home for those struggling for it from afar and from the margins.
Synthesising and systematising state-of-the-art research on home and migration, this groundbreaking Handbook will prove an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and researchers of sociology, anthropology, geography, and architecture. Practitioners and volunteers involved in social welfare, housing, informal social support, and mobilisations, for or by migrants and refugees, will also find this book of importance.
Trade Review‘By focusing on home and its mutual entanglements with migration, this book brings fresh eyes to migration studies. What do voluntary and forced migrants lose with respect to home and how do they rebuild and transform it along their way? How does the ability to recreate the emotional, sensorial, and cultural dimensions of home vary across groups and what impact does this have on migrants’ ability to achieve some measure of inclusion and belonging? Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of eminent scholars from around the world, this book provides valuable insights and nuances our understanding of contemporary migration.’ -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US
‘The home can seem so solid and fixed. But seen from the perspective of migration it is suddenly set in motion as the vehicle that might take the paths of homing or displacement, home making and unmaking, security and fragility, memory and affectivity. At the same time, a focus on the home as the point of reference for all these dynamic processes provides an ideal position from which to gain an empathetic grounding in the lived experience of migrants. With over fifty chapters, this volume is able to provide an unprecedented sense of the diversity of these experiences and the multiple contexts that need to be considered for a more comprehensive assessment of this relationship between migration and home.’ -- Daniel Miller, University College London, UK
‘This impressive and comprehensive Handbook is the culmination of extensive work on the meaning of home directed by the editor. For migrants and refugees, feeling at home is a pressing and sometimes existential issue but, as the rich array of contributors show, creating a reassuring home in our crisis-ridden world is a problem we all face.’ -- Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, UK
‘This exceptionally rich book about home and the activity of homing among migrants, empirically and theoretically wide-ranging, is bound to establish itself as the standard reference in the field. It also points ahead towards new conceptualisations of the home, certainly with respect to people on the move, but also in a general sense. Through its focus on people to whom the home is a precarious resource which has to be created, sometimes from scratch, the book raises fundamental questions about social life and belonging.’ -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway
‘This comprehensive, insightful, beautiful collection opens a window into the multiple, everyday meanings of “home” under conditions of migration and displacement. Exceptionally well-integrated, the collection invites us to a fascinating conversation about home across vast geographies, disciplines, and methods. Indispensable reading for anyone who cares about home.’ -- Cecilia Menjivar, University of California, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: home and migration – setting the terms of belonging and place-making on the move 1 Paolo Boccagni PART I BACKGROUNDS 2 Migrants of identity: cosmopolitan actors at home in the world 30 Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson 3 Home and forced migration 42 Giorgia Donà, Cathrine Brun and Anita Fábos 4 Housing studies, migration and home 55 Keith Jacobs 5 The migrant house: the meaning of its architecture and materiality 66 Iris Levin 6 Towards a social history of home and migration 77 Rosa Salzberg 7 Moving toward home away from home: a cultural psychology perspective on home and migration 90 Mariann Märtsin and Annela Samuel 8 Between longing and belonging: home, homemaking and diasporas 100 Jayani Bonnerjee 9 The paradox of home: an interview with Les Back 112 PART II QUESTIONS 10 Senses of home in the modern world 121 Gordon Mathews 11 Temporalities of migration and homemaking 131 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Franchesca Morais 12 Governing the state as a home: domopolitics and migration 145 William Walters 13 Settler colonialism and home 158 Ariel Handel and Hagar Kotef 14 Home and the politics of location and displacement 170 Halleh Ghorashi 15 On the biopsychosocial impacts of extreme domicide 183 Bree Akesson 16 Home, nativism and migration 195 Jan Willem Duyvendak 17 Moving from home to accommodation – a conceptual alternative for the historical manipulation of home for violent and exclusionary ends: an interview with Barak Kalir 206 PART III LIVED EXPERIENCE 18 Home and homemaking in local and transnational family lives 215 Angelie Marilla and Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot 19 Feeling at home: migrant homemaking through the senses 228 Diana Mata-Codesal 20 Making home through memories and ritualised social practices 239 Anastasia Christou 21 Moving bricks: strategies for a genealogy of housing, migration, and social movements 252 Araceli Masterson-Algar and Edward Jackiewicz 22 Home and homemaking during refugee journeys 265 Elina Paju, Lena Näre and Paula Merikoski 23 Migration, home, and homemaking in contemporary visual art 279 Helen Underhill 24 Fictions of home: contemporary Palestinian narratives of migration 291 Yasmine Shamma 25 Religion, immigration, and homemaking: an interview with Peter Kivisto 304 PART IV SCALES AND MATERIALITIES 26 The importance of the housing market for the housing opportunities of immigrants 313 Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen and Hans Skifter Andersen 27 Diasporic housing and the ‘valuing’ of home 328 Lauren Wagner 28 Migrants’ homemaking practices in shared housing 338 Zahra Nasreen 29 Refugee housing and homing: negotiating self and humanity 350 Anne Sigfrid Grønseth 30 The works of homemaking: migration, domestic materiality, and everyday life 365 Marta Vilar Rosales 31 Scaling down migrant homemaking: home possessions and the embodied experience of home 377 Anna Pechurina 32 A (dis)connected homescape: the promise, limits, and paradox of migrants’ homemaking practices in the digital age 388 Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Xinyu Zhao PART V DIFFERENCES AND INEQUALITIES 33 Gendering home and migration 400 Annabelle Wilkins 34 Migration and home in research with children and young people: story, participation, agency 411 Marta Moskal 35 Homemaking and cohousing by postcolonial migrants in later life 426 Louise Meijering and Ajay Bailey 36 Making home at the borders of citizenship: migrants, home, and (il)legality 438 Paola Bonizzoni, Enrico Gargiulo, and Maurizio Artero 37 Home and homemaking practices among skilled Indian migrants 453 Ajay Bailey 38 Polish multiple migrants and their narratives of home and homemaking over time 466 Aleksandra Winiarska, Justyna Salamońska, Marta Kluszczyńska and Aneta Krzyworzeka-Jelinowska 39 Home, migration, and Roma people in Europe 481 Stefano Piemontese and Gaja Maestri 40 Why (and how) home matters in the “stay-at-home” order and beyond 493 Tasoulla Hadjiyanni 41 Homemaking and mobilities among LGBT people: an interview with Andrew Gorman-Murray 507 PART VI METHODS 42 Unveiling the (trans)national in the home space: an auto-ethnography 515 Magdalena Nowicka 43 Narrating home: oral histories as documents and practices of homing 529 Alexander Freund 44 Visual research and participatory research methods 543 Charishma Ratnam 45 Researching home through the narratives of displaced people 554 Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia 46 Exploring home and migration through quantitative research: enlarging scales, unsettling questions 567 Paolo Boccagni, Cristiano Santinello and Bernardo Armanni PART VII BEYOND THE WEST 47 Between home and accommodation: migration and housing in the Arab region between circular ideals and diasporic lives 581 Samuli Schielke 48 Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing to conspicuous construction 595 Julia Pauli 49 Norms and forms of the remittance landscape in Latin America 609 Christien Klaufus 50 House, home, and homemaking in post-Soviet migratory contexts: insights from research in Russia and Japan 621 Ksenia Golovina, Anna Pechurina, Anna Rocheva, and Evgeni Varshaver 51 Making sense of family and home: multi-generational immigrant families from China to New Zealand 635 Liangni Sally Liu and Guanyu Jason Ran 52 Remittances and transnational housing among the Indian diaspora: home as a project 647 S. Irudaya Rajan and Anand P. Cherian 53 Conclusion: on the futures of home and migration 660 Paolo Boccagni Index
