Paolo Boccagni will participate in the workshop "Theorizing transience: Temporary migrations in the Middle-East and the Pacific" convened by Anju Paul, Laure Assaf and Brenda Yeoh at NYU Abu Dhabi (19-21 November). Paolo's presentation will be on "Theorizing home in transience: Commonalities and dilemmas in place attachment and appropriation across temporary mobilities".
On 6 November, at 12pm local time, Paolo Boccagni will give a guest lecture at McGill University, in the ISID Series, convened by the McGill Refugee Research Group. Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento) Undoing nothing: Waiting for asylum, struggling for relevance This lecture unpacks the complex ways in which "home" matters for refugee studies, as well as for those … Leggi tutto HOMING @ MCGILL UNIVERSITY: “UNDOING NOTHING” AND APPROACHING QUESTIONS OF “HOME” IN REFUGEE STUDIES
On 3 November, at 12pm local time, Paolo Boccagni will give a lecture at the University of Ottawa, as a part of the Migration and Diaspora Studies group activities. The lecture revisits, and elaborates upon, some aspects of the recently published monograph Undoing Nothing. See more details below... Wearing sedentariness, Dreaming of mobility. Slippers, sneakers, and the … Leggi tutto HOMING @ CARLETON UNIVERSITY: ‘WEARING SEDENTARINESS, DREAMING OF MOBILITY. SLIPPERS, SNEAKERS AND THE TENSION BETWEEN SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS IN A PLACE FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS’
Paolo Boccagni will visit the Faculty of Social Science at Western University on 27-30 November. During his stay, Paolo will give talks at the Human Environments Analysis Lab (HEAL), at the Western Ethnography Lab (WE-ColLab), and at the Migration and Ethnic Relations (MER) Research Centre.
Former Hominger Alejandro Miranda-Nieto, now at Oslo Met University, has just published (together with E. Gubrium) an OA article in Ethnic and Racial Studies. The paper draws on Alejandro's HOMInG fieldwork in the Netherlands, and on his ongoing conceptualization of home, familiarity, social practices, and the senses. See the abstract below. Miranda-Nieto, A., & Gubrium, E. … Leggi tutto NEW ARTICLE: ‘SOMATIC AGENCY AND THE SENSORY CONSTRUCTION OF FAMILIARITY AMONG ECUADORIAN MIGRANTS IN THE NETHERLANDS’ (BY A. MIRANDA-NIETO & E. GUBRIUM, ‘ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES’, 2025)
Next 9 October at 12, in the MPC Seminar Series (EUI - Robert Schumann Centre), Paolo Boccagni will present his new book Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance (University of California Press, OA, 2025). The seminar, in presence and online, is convened by Martin Ruhs and Andrew Geddes, and chaired by Lorenzo Piccoli. See the description below. In this … Leggi tutto ‘UNDOING NOTHING’ BOOK PRESENTATION (9 OCTOBER, IN PRESENCE AND ONLINE)
Former Hominger Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia has just published A long journey home, a major contribution to the study of home, and to the quest and the struggle for it, after forced displacement. Based on in-depth narrative fieldwork in Colombia, this open-access book examines the experiences of those whose sense of home has been disrupted by decades of … Leggi tutto NEW BOOK: LUIS EDUARDO PEREZ MURCIA, “A LONG JOURNEY HOME: LOSING AND REMAKING HOME FOLLOWING CONFLICT AND DISPLACEMENT” (BERGHAHN, OA, 2025)
Within the final workshop of the PRIN WELL-MIG project, Paolo Boccagni will give an invited lecture on "Beyond the here-now: Interrogating the temporal, spatial and relational scales of well-being in migration". The CNR-IRPPS workshop, on "Migration and subjective well-being in Italy and Europe", will take place on 16 September in Rome. The following day, again hosted by CNR-IRPPS, he will present and … Leggi tutto HOMING @ CNR-IRPPS (ROME): “SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN MIGRATION” (16 SEPTEMBER) AND “VITE FERME” (17 SEPTEMBER)
HOMING @ TOYO UNIVERSITY: 'NO DESTINATION? UNVEILING THE STRUGGLE TO VIEW AND ANTICIPATE THE FUTURE IN WAITHOOD' (TOKYO, JULY 21) Paolo Boccagni will give a lecture in the monthly series of the Hakusan Society of Anthropology at Toyo University, Tokyo, next 21 July at 6.15pm. See the abstract of his lecture below. "No destination? Unveiling the struggle to view and … Leggi tutto HOMING @ TOYO UNIVERSITY: ‘NO DESTINATION? UNVEILING THE STRUGGLE TO VIEW AND ANTICIPATE THE FUTURE IN WAITHOOD’ (TOKYO, JULY 21)
HOMING @ 5 ISA FORUM OF SOCIOLOGY (RABAT, JULY 2025) Within the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation on Monday, 7 July, on "Undoing nothing: from an ethnography with young asylum seekers to a sociological research agenda". This will be part of an RC34 session on "Beyond the moral panic of juvenile … Leggi tutto Undoing nothing: from an ethnography with young asylum seekers to a sociological research agenda
Paolo Boccagni will participate in IMISCOE's Annual conference next week at ICM - Aubervilliers - Paris. Within a session on "Death, dying and memorialisation", convened by A. Hunter (University of Glasgow) on July 2 (10-50-12-20), Paolo will give a presentation on Homing on death through migration studies: A conceptual inquiry and its implications. See the abstract below. Homing … Leggi tutto HOMING @ IMISCOE 2025: DECENTERING MIGRATION STUDIES (PARIS, 1-4 JULY)
Paolo Boccagni will give an invited lecture at the University of Fulda, next May 20 at 4.30 pm, as a part of the "Researching Community" series of the DFG-funded research impulse 'Shaping Future Society‘ (SaFe). Paolo's lecture will be on Homing Revisited – Approaching Ordinary Struggles and Emerging Dilemmas of Future-Oriented Mobilities. Homing, revisited: approaching ordinary struggles and emerging dilemmas … Leggi tutto HOMING @ FULDA UNIVERSITY: Homing Revisited: Approaching Ordinary Struggles and Emerging Dilemmas of Future-Oriented Mobilities
Paolo Boccagni will give a talk at the forthcoming symposium on Return Migration convened by Jasna Capo at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, in the framework of the “Transnational Return Migration to Croatia, Kosovo and North Macedonia” funded by the Research Group Linkage Programme of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021-2025). Paolo's talk will be on Aspiring to … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ‘RETURN MIGRATION: TEMPORALITIES, PROJECTS, IMPACTS’ (ZAGREB, 6-7 MAY)
Paolo Boccagni will give a lecture at the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences of USF - University of South Florida, next April 16 at 10.30. The lecture belongs to the Spencer Cahill Annual Lecture Series. Worldwide, asylum reception centers and "camps" are micro-spaces that embody the humanitarian side of the refugee regime. As such, they are … Leggi tutto HOMING @ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: ROOMS WITH LITTLE VIEW: RELUCTANT HOMEMAKING IN AN ASYLUM CENTER (TAMPA, APRIL 16)
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 