MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_10: ‘ATTENDING HOUSES OF WORSHIP AS HOMES OUT OF THE HOME’ (BY S. BONFANTI & B. BERTOLANI) 

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 10  by Sara Bonfanti and Barbara Bertolani explores the lived experience of home in extra-domestic settings such as migrant houses of worship. By their very name, houses of worship are often seen and … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_10: ‘ATTENDING HOUSES OF WORSHIP AS HOMES OUT OF THE HOME’ (BY S. BONFANTI & B. BERTOLANI) 

MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_9: ‘LOOKING FOR HOMES IN MIGRANTS’ INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: A CASE STUDY FROM ITALY’ (BY E. FRAVEGA) 

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 9  by Enrico Fravega offers an overview of migrants’ home experience in informal settlements. Focusing on the case of an agro-industrial district in Southern Italy, and based on ethnographic fieldwork, … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_9: ‘LOOKING FOR HOMES IN MIGRANTS’ INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: A CASE STUDY FROM ITALY’ (BY E. FRAVEGA) 

MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_8: ‘(IN)VISIBILITY: ON THE DOORSTEP OF A MEDIATIZED REFUGEES’ SQUAT’ (BY D. GIUDICI) 

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 8  by Daniela Giudici explores migrants’ squats in marginal and “out of sight” urban areas, at the intersection of institutional neglect and alternative strategies for self-managed living. At times, migrants’ informal … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_8: ‘(IN)VISIBILITY: ON THE DOORSTEP OF A MEDIATIZED REFUGEES’ SQUAT’ (BY D. GIUDICI) 

HOMING @ MODI (UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA) – LA LOTTA PER IL TEMPO / REFUGEE ‘STRUGGLES FOR TIME’ (24 APRIL)

Paolo Boccagni and Enrico Fravega will present La lotta per il tempo ("Struggling for time", a book co-authored with Daniela Giudici) next Wednesday 24 April at the University of Bologna - Centro di Ricerca MODI (Mobilità, Diversità, Inclusione sociale - Chair: Bruno Riccio). The book draws on HOASI's multi-sited research on the multiple and contrasting temporalities that inform housing conditions and pathways of asylum seekers … Leggi tutto HOMING @ MODI (UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA) – LA LOTTA PER IL TEMPO / REFUGEE ‘STRUGGLES FOR TIME’ (24 APRIL)

HOMING @ MERGING’S FINAL CONFERENCE ON PARTICIPATORY HOUSING FOR REFUGEES (BRUSSELS, 18 APRIL)

Paolo Boccagni will participate in a Roundtable in the final event of the EU-funded project Merging - Integration for migrants, to take place in Brussels next 18 April. The final conference, on Housing initiatives as drivers of social inclusion, will include a panel discussion on How to rethink housing for migrants, refugees and newcomers in Europe, to ensure a sustainable … Leggi tutto HOMING @ MERGING’S FINAL CONFERENCE ON PARTICIPATORY HOUSING FOR REFUGEES (BRUSSELS, 18 APRIL)

MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_7: ‘ROOMS WITH LITTLE VIEW: RELUCTANT HOMEMAKING AND THE NEGOTIATION OF SPACE IN AN ASYLUM CENTRE’ (BY P. BOCCAGNI)

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 7  by Paolo Boccagni approaches reception centres for asylum seekers, and “camps” more broadly, as a subject of increasing interest in refugee, housing and border studies. Only a fraction of … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_7: ‘ROOMS WITH LITTLE VIEW: RELUCTANT HOMEMAKING AND THE NEGOTIATION OF SPACE IN AN ASYLUM CENTRE’ (BY P. BOCCAGNI)

MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_6: ‘VISITING HOME AS A METHOD AND EXPERIENCE: RESEARCHING RUSSIAN MIGRANTS’ HOMES IN THE UK’ (BY A. PECHURINA)

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 6  by Anna Pechurina  draws on a study that examined the interrelation between home, migration and cultural identity, using home-based qualitative interviews as the main method of data collection. As … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_6: ‘VISITING HOME AS A METHOD AND EXPERIENCE: RESEARCHING RUSSIAN MIGRANTS’ HOMES IN THE UK’ (BY A. PECHURINA)

MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_5: ‘SHARED FLATS IN MADRID: ACCESSING AND ANALYSING MIGRANTS’ SENSE OF HOME’ (BY A. MIRANDA-NIETO) 

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 5  by Alejandro Miranda-Nieto starts from the premise that many migrants opt for shared accommodation as a way of coping with the shortage of affordable housing in large cities. As … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_5: ‘SHARED FLATS IN MADRID: ACCESSING AND ANALYSING MIGRANTS’ SENSE OF HOME’ (BY A. MIRANDA-NIETO) 

MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_4: ‘WELCOME UPON CONDITIONS: ON VISITING A MULTIGENERATIONAL IMMIGRANT HOUSE(HOLD)’ (BY S. BONFANTI)  

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 4  by Sara Bonfantibuilds upon extensive ethnographic research with South Asian diasporas in Britain. To depict and disentangle the complexity of such migrant collectives, three case studies are considered, … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_4: ‘WELCOME UPON CONDITIONS: ON VISITING A MULTIGENERATIONAL IMMIGRANT HOUSE(HOLD)’ (BY S. BONFANTI)  

MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_3: ‘THE NEXT-DOOR MIGRANT: AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY HOME ENCOUNTERS ACROSS DIFFERENCE’ (BY F. VIETTI)

 As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 3 by Francesco Vietti explores homemaking as a process that involves different generations of migrants, connecting multiple stories and scales of mobility: local, national, transnational. This is the case … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_3: ‘THE NEXT-DOOR MIGRANT: AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY HOME ENCOUNTERS ACROSS DIFFERENCE’ (BY F. VIETTI)

MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_2: ‘A HOUSE OF HOMES: ON THE MULTISCALARITY AND AMBIVALENCE OF HOMEMAKING IN A MULTICULTURAL CONDOMINIUM IN ITALY’ (BY A. CANCELLIERI)

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an Open Access collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 2 by Adriano Cancellieri reflects on homemaking within a multicultural condominium in central Italy. Hotel House, located in the small town of Porto Recanati, is home to almost 2000 … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_2: ‘A HOUSE OF HOMES: ON THE MULTISCALARITY AND AMBIVALENCE OF HOMEMAKING IN A MULTICULTURAL CONDOMINIUM IN ITALY’ (BY A. CANCELLIERI)

‘STRANGER, GUEST, RESEARCHER: A CASE FOR DOMESTIC ETHNOGRAPHY IN MIGRATION STUDIES’ (BOCCAGNI & BONFANTI, OA, 2023)

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an Open Access collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees, the Introduction by Boccagni and Bonfanti is like a state of the art on the potential of domestic ethnography, in a larger frame of host-guest relationship, in migration and refugee studies. As the authors write, being … Leggi tutto ‘STRANGER, GUEST, RESEARCHER: A CASE FOR DOMESTIC ETHNOGRAPHY IN MIGRATION STUDIES’ (BOCCAGNI & BONFANTI, OA, 2023)

‘HOUSING AND HOME’ (E. FRAVEGA & P. BOCCAGNI, ‘RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION’, 2024)

Enrico Fravega and Paolo Boccagni have recently published a chapter on Housing and Home in the new Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration, edited by G. Sciortino, M. Cvajner and P. Kivisto (Edward Elgar, 2024). The chapter draws a conceptual map of the linkages between home and housing for international migrants. Based mainly on the study of migration in the European context, … Leggi tutto ‘HOUSING AND HOME’ (E. FRAVEGA & P. BOCCAGNI, ‘RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION’, 2024)

HOMING @ CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG: ‘DREAMING OF MOBILITY FROM AN IMMOBILE PRESENCE AND PRESENT’

Paolo Boccagni will give a talk at the Chinese University of Hong Kong next 11 January. The talk, as a part of the Anthropology Department Social Impact Series, will be on Dreaming of mobility from an immobile presence and present: sneakers and their symbolic power in a place for asylum seekers. Discussant: prof. Gordon Matthews. Between 2018 and 2022 I did an ethnography in … Leggi tutto HOMING @ CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG: ‘DREAMING OF MOBILITY FROM AN IMMOBILE PRESENCE AND PRESENT’