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Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of
over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and
refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe
critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.
Subaltern migrants and refugees speak out, conceptually engaging
with the political strength of their voices as this volume seeks to
combat the notion that these people are 'out of place' or cannot
claim their right to belong.
This open access book provides insight into the domestic space of
people with an immigrant or refugee background. It selects and
compares a whole spectrum of dwelling conditions with ethnographic
material covering a variety of national backgrounds – Latin
America, North and West Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia – and
an equally broad range of housing, household and legal
arrangements. It provides a fine-grained understanding of
migrants’ lived experience of their domestic space and shows the
critical significance of the lived space of a house as a microcosm
of societal constellations of identities, values and inequalities.
The book enhances the connection between migration studies and
research into housing, social reproduction, domesticity and
material culture and provides an interesting read to scholars in
migration studies, policy makers and practitioners with a remit in
local housing and integration policies. “This wonderful edited
collection extends our understanding of migration not only into the
confines of the domestic space but also into the territory of the
ethnographer. What does it mean to be a guest in a migrant home?
This collection of chapters traverses this question in diverse
settings and circumstances of homemaking […]. Boccagni and
Bonfanti have skilfully created an intricate lace of ethnographic
accounts that provides a nuanced understanding of the built
environments where migrants live, how they relate to their homes
and how this is articulated in their attitudes toward majority
society. The chapters, each on its own and together as a
collection, advance our understanding of the researcher being a
guest in the migrant home, just like the migrant being a guest in
the host country. This complexity of ethnography and positionality
makes this edited book an essential reading for migration scholars
and ethnographers alike!” Iris Levin, Lecturer in Urban Studies,
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia “This book demonstrates how
ethnographies of home and dwelling can bear on the study of
migration and its manifestation in domestic space. Entering
someone’s home as a researcher challenges our ethical registers:
the researcher moves between being a stranger and a guest. The
authors point to the dilemmas researchers encounter in intimate
settings and how they might be resolved. A valuable and timely book
for researchers on dwelling, home and movement.” Cathrine Brun,
Professor of Human Geography, Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford,
UK "This excellent collection delves into the relationship
between migration, domesticity, and material culture. It is
ethnographically rich and impressively varied in its geographical
scope, with insights that will prove extremely useful to scholars
and practitioners alike. The great strength of the volume lies in
the fascinating diversity, granular detail and methodological care
of the contributions, with authors deploying concepts and arguments
that prepare a great deal of fertile ground for future work." Tom
Scott-Smith, Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced
Migration, University of Oxford “This insightful
collection departs from the simple yet significant question of
roles: What happens when the researcher/participant relationship,
becomes guest/host instead? By seeing and interpreting domestic
spaces as ethnographic field sites, the contributions shed light on
refugees’ and other migrants’ lived experiences of home and
housing. Drawing on empirical evidence from diverse types of homes,
across geographic locations, Migration and domestic space:
Ethnographies of home in the making offers valuable and fresh
perspective, encouraging new connections between material and
emotional, public and private, in migration research.” Marta
Bivand Erdal, Research Professor in Migration studies, Peace
Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
This book lays out a framework for understanding connections
between home and mobility, and situates this within a
multidisciplinary field of social research. The authors show how
the idea of home offers a privileged entry point into forced
migration, diversity and inequality. Using original fieldwork, they
adopt an encompassing lens on labour, family and refugee flows,
with cases of migrants from Latin America, Africa and the Indian
subcontinent. With the book structured around these key topics, the
authors look at how practices of home and mobility emerge along
with emotions and manifold social processes. In doing so, their
scope shifts from the household to streets, neighbourhoods, cities
and even nations. Yet, the meaning of 'home' as a lived experience
goes beyond place; the authors analyse literature on migration and
mobility to reveal how the past and future are equally projected
into imaginings of home.
This book lays out a framework for understanding connections
between home and mobility, and situates this within a
multidisciplinary field of social research. The authors show how
the idea of home offers a privileged entry point into forced
migration, diversity and inequality. Using original fieldwork, they
adopt an encompassing lens on labour, family and refugee flows,
with cases of migrants from Latin America, Africa and the Indian
subcontinent. With the book structured around these key topics, the
authors look at how practices of home and mobility emerge along
with emotions and manifold social processes. In doing so, their
scope shifts from the household to streets, neighbourhoods, cities
and even nations. Yet, the meaning of 'home' as a lived experience
goes beyond place; the authors analyse literature on migration and
mobility to reveal how the past and future are equally projected
into imaginings of home.
This open access book provides insight into the domestic space of
people with an immigrant or refugee background. It selects and
compares a whole spectrum of dwelling conditions with ethnographic
material covering a variety of national backgrounds – Latin
America, North and West Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia – and
an equally broad range of housing, household and legal
arrangements. It provides a fine-grained understanding of
migrants’ lived experience of their domestic space and shows the
critical significance of the lived space of a house as a microcosm
of societal constellations of identities, values and inequalities.
The book enhances the connection between migration studies and
research into housing, social reproduction, domesticity and
material culture and provides an interesting read to scholars in
migration studies, policy makers and practitioners with a remit in
local housing and integration policies. “This wonderful edited
collection extends our understanding of migration not only into the
confines of the domestic space but also into the territory of the
ethnographer. What does it mean to be a guest in a migrant home?
This collection of chapters traverses this question in diverse
settings and circumstances of homemaking […]. Boccagni and
Bonfanti have skilfully created an intricate lace of ethnographic
accounts that provides a nuanced understanding of the built
environments where migrants live, how they relate to their homes
and how this is articulated in their attitudes toward majority
society. The chapters, each on its own and together as a
collection, advance our understanding of the researcher being a
guest in the migrant home, just like the migrant being a guest in
the host country. This complexity of ethnography and positionality
makes this edited book an essential reading for migration scholars
and ethnographers alike!” Iris Levin, Lecturer in Urban Studies,
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia “This book demonstrates how
ethnographies of home and dwelling can bear on the study of
migration and its manifestation in domestic space. Entering
someone’s home as a researcher challenges our ethical registers:
the researcher moves between being a stranger and a guest. The
authors point to the dilemmas researchers encounter in intimate
settings and how they might be resolved. A valuable and timely book
for researchers on dwelling, home and movement.” Cathrine Brun,
Professor of Human Geography, Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford,
UK "This excellent collection delves into the relationship
between migration, domesticity, and material culture. It is
ethnographically rich and impressively varied in its geographical
scope, with insights that will prove extremely useful to scholars
and practitioners alike. The great strength of the volume lies in
the fascinating diversity, granular detail and methodological care
of the contributions, with authors deploying concepts and arguments
that prepare a great deal of fertile ground for future work." Tom
Scott-Smith, Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced
Migration, University of Oxford “This insightful
collection departs from the simple yet significant question of
roles: What happens when the researcher/participant relationship,
becomes guest/host instead? By seeing and interpreting domestic
spaces as ethnographic field sites, the contributions shed light on
refugees’ and other migrants’ lived experiences of home and
housing. Drawing on empirical evidence from diverse types of homes,
across geographic locations, Migration and domestic space:
Ethnographies of home in the making offers valuable and fresh
perspective, encouraging new connections between material and
emotional, public and private, in migration research.” Marta
Bivand Erdal, Research Professor in Migration studies, Peace
Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
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