Boccagni Migration and the Search for Home

Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants' Everyday Lives
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-58802-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten

Reihe: Mobility & Politics

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. 

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boccagni, Paolo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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