Description
Book Synopsis As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese industrial cities, Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine, and young gay South Asians in London. While negotiating widely varying social-political contexts, these studies suggest an unavoidably multiple understanding of home, while provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself “at home.”
Trade Review “An important contribution to migration research, especially for understanding home and homemaking in the context of lived realities.” • Nataša Rogelja, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
“One of the joys of this collection is the [range of] wonderful and innovative approaches taken by the contributors… The research methods and conceptual approaches vary considerably from chapter to chapter, making each chapter a voyage of discovery in its own right.” • David Clark, independent scholar
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Introduction: Home and Homemaking in a Time of Crisis
Tom Selwyn and Nicola Frost
Chapter 1. Homing Desires: Queer Young Asian Men in London
Chand Starin Basi and Kaveri Qureshi
Chapter 2. Homeawayness and Life-Project Building: Homemaking Among Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Shuhua Chen
Chapter 3. Between a Home and a Homeland: Experiences of Jewish Return Migrants in Ukraine
Marina Sapritsky
Chapter 4. Who Makes ‘Old England’ Home? Tourism and Migration in the English Countryside
Yuko Shioji
Chapter 5. Modalities of Space, Time, and Voice in Palestinian Hip-Hop Narratives
Ilana Webster-Kogan
Chapter 6. My Maluku Manise: Managing Desire and Despair in the Diaspora
Nicola Frost
Chapter 7. Anecdotes of Movement and Belonging: Intertwining Strands of the Professional and the Personal
Colin Murray
Afterword
Tom Selwyn
Index
