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_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 approaches an informal settlement with a large and stigmatized refugee population. Migrants’ squats often inhabit marginal and “out of sight” urban areas, placed at the intersection of … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_8: ‘(IN)VISIBILITY: ON THE DOORSTEP OF A MEDIATIZED REFUGEES’ SQUAT’ (BY D. GIUDICI)

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’

HOMING @ THANATIC ETHICS #3: ‘THE (IM)MATERIAL AND THE SENSORY IN DEATH IN MIGRATION’ (EDUCATION UNIVERSITY HONG KONG, 8-9 JANUARY)

Paolo Boccagni will participate in the Third conference of the Thanatic Ethics Network in Hong Kong, 8-9 January, about Death “Matters”: The (Im)material and the Sensory in Death in Migration. Paolo's presentation is about Coping with the absence that is always present: Sensorial Traces and Impingements of Death in the Everyday Lives of Young West African Migrants in Europe. See … Leggi tutto HOMING @ THANATIC ETHICS #3: ‘THE (IM)MATERIAL AND THE SENSORY IN DEATH IN MIGRATION’ (EDUCATION UNIVERSITY HONG KONG, 8-9 JANUARY)

CALL FOR PAPERS @RC21_SANTIAGO 2024: SCALES OF DISPLACEMENT AND EMERGING SPACES OF ENCOUNTER AND MOBILIZATION (DEADLINE: 31 DECEMBER)

Within the forthcoming RC21 Conference in Santiago de Chile (24-26 July 2024), on The politics and spaces of encounters, Paolo Boccagni and Margarethe Kusenbach (University of Southern Florida) have convened a session on Scales of displacement and emerging spaces of encounter and mobilization: Seeking common ground across cities, disciplines, and social groups (Panel 28). See the abstract below. Deadline for online … Leggi tutto CALL FOR PAPERS @RC21_SANTIAGO 2024: SCALES OF DISPLACEMENT AND EMERGING SPACES OF ENCOUNTER AND MOBILIZATION (DEADLINE: 31 DECEMBER)