Migration and the Search for Home (eBook)

Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants’ Everyday Lives

Paolo Boccagni (Autor)

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2016
136 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-58802-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life, yet migrants’ experience tells a different story: what happens to the notion of home, once migrants move far away from their “natural” bases and search for new ones, often under marginalized living conditions? The author analyzes in how far migrants’ sense of home relies on a dwelling place, intimate relationships, memories of the past, and aspirations for the future–and what difference these factors make in practice. Analyzing their claims, conflicts, and dilemmas, this book showcases how in the migrants’ case, the sense of home turns from an apparently intimate and domestic concern into a major public question. 

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This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life, yet migrants' experience tells a different story: what happens to the notion of home, once migrants move far away from their "e;natural"e; bases and search for new ones, often under marginalized living conditions? The author analyzes in how far migrants' sense of home relies on a dwelling place, intimate relationships, memories of the past, and aspirations for the future-and what difference these factors make in practice. Analyzing their claims, conflicts, and dilemmas, this book showcases how in the migrants' case, the sense of home turns from an apparently intimate and domestic concern into a major public question. 

Autor

Paolo Boccagni is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy. His main research areas are transnational migration, social welfare, care, diversity and home, and his publication record includes articles in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Global Networks, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Housing, Theory and Society. He is also Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project HOMInG – The home-migration nexus: Home as a window on migrant belonging, integration and circulation (ERC STG 678456, 2016-2021).

Inhalt

Migration and the Search for Home 4
Series Editors’ Foreword 7
Acknowledgements 9
Praise for Migration and the Search for Home 11
About the Author 12
Contents 13
List of Figures 14
List of Tables 15
Introduction 16
1 A New Lens on the Migration-home Nexus 23
Home as a Question for Social Theory and Research 25
Conceptual and Definitional Issues: What is Specific of Home? 25
Through Materiality, and Beyond: Home as a Special Relationship with Place 32
On the Irremediably Prescriptive Bases of Home 35
Home as a Lens and a Research Subject for Migration Studies 37
On the Shifting Place(s) of Home in Migrant Life Trajectories 38
A Case for the Migration-Home Nexus 41
Homing: A New Research Agenda on Migrants’ Search for Home 44
Notes 49
2 Researching Migrants’ Home 51
Researching into Home: What, Why and How 53
Researching Migrants’ Home(s): the Role of Personal and Biographical Accounts 58
Researching Migrants’ Home(s): Direct Observation and Ways Ahead 63
Notes 68
3 Migration and Home over Space 70
Is Home Portable? Displacement and Place-Making in the Migrant Experience 71
Still Immobile: Migrant Houses as Markers of Achievement, or Lack Thereof 76
On the Boundaries and Scales of Migrants’ Home Experience 83
Note 85
4 Migration and Home over Time 86
For a Time-Sensitive Optic on Migrants’ Home Experience 88
Home as the Beginning and as Embodiment of the Past 91
On the Biographical Evolution of Migrants’ Home Experience: Loss, Retention and Beyond 95
Homing Between Past, Present and Future: Temporal (Dis)continuities in Migrants’ Sense of Home 98
Notes 105
5 Migrants’ Home as a Political Issue 107
Why Home is a Political Question (and Migration Casts Light Upon It) 109
Homeland: The Four Walls of (Natives’) Home? 111
The State as Home? Domopolitics, and Beyond 115
Home in Migration-Related Mobilization 119
Notes 123
6 Conclusion 125
Kinds of Home, Kinds of Homing 126
Homing, from Migrants to the Sedentary and Natives 128
Towards a New Research Agenda on the Migration-Home Nexus 130
And then What? The Migration-Home Nexus as a Practically Relevant Matter 132
Note 133
References 134
Index 148

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Mobility & Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Mobility & Politics
• Zusatzinfo: XXVII, 136 p. 2 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: ethnography • homing • Housing • International migration • Political Mobilization • transnationalism
• ISBN-10: 1-137-58802-0 / 1137588020
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-58802-9 / 9781137588029