The fourth life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about "Once We Relax, the Door of Trauma is Open: Aaron’ Life Story". Through this life story, Milena Belloni tells the life story of Aaron, an Eritrean man in his forties living in the Netherlands. While recounting the … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_4: ‘ONCE WE RELAX, THE DOOR OF TRAUMA IS OPEN’
The third life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about "Priya - Homing in the Global Job Market: the Life Story of an Indian Woman in the Netherlands". Through this life story, Sara Bonfanti highlights the predicaments faced by high-skilled migrants in making a home on the move. … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_3: ‘HOMING IN THE GLOBAL JOB MARKET’
The second life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about Miriam - One Essential Home (“Ecuador”), Another Existential Home (“With My Mother”), Many Houses In-Between. Based on a long-term ethnographic engagement, Paolo Boccagni reconstructs her story as a migration, housing and existential pathway in both Italy and … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_2: ‘ONE ESSENTIAL HOME (“ECUADOR”), ANOTHER EXISTENTIAL HOME (“WITH MY MOTHER”), MANY HOUSES IN-BETWEEN’
The first life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about Lucho, "a Peruvian religious minister in Manchester". His story, as written by Luis E. Perez Murcia, questions distinctions between different forms of human mobility and the assumption that attachment to a place called home is both a … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_1: ‘MOVED BY THE HAND OF GOD’
Former homingers Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara Bonfanti have just published, with Berghahn, Finding home in Europe: chronicles of global migrants. This is an edited collection of life stories co-produced along the life course of HOMInG with immigrant people coming from South America, India and the Horn of Africa. Bringing together their voices, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE: CHRONICLES OF GLOBAL MIGRANTS (PEREZ-MURCIA & BONFANTI, EDS., 2023)
Paolo Boccagni has recently authored a chapter on Homemaking in superdiverse public space within the Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity edited by Fran Meissner, Nando Sigona and Steve Vertovec (Oxford UP, 2022). See the abstract below. This chapter invites a systematic exploration of the interplay between superdiversity and homemaking in the public urban space. The notion of home, as a form of … Leggi tutto HOMEMAKING IN SUPERDIVERSE PUBLIC SPACE (P. BOCCAGNI, IN ‘OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SUPERDIVERSITY’, 2022)
Paolo Boccagni has recently been interviewed by Prisca Arosio (Social Objects / Oggetti Socievoli) as a part of an interview series on home and domestic objects during the covid-19 lockdowns. Starting from the book Thinking Home on the Move and from the article StayHome As a YouTube Performance, Paolo and Prisca engage in a broader conversation on the meanings of … Leggi tutto ‘SOCIABLE OBJECTS’ AND HOME UNDER THE PANDEMIC: A CONVERSATION WITH PAOLO BOCCAGNI
HOMING INTERVIEW #63: FRANCESCO CHIODELLI "By mobilizing the notion of slums we do not identify only a specific object, a specific type of settlement, but we identify simultaneously some groups which we do not consider entitled to citizenship rights. I mean, the crucial difference between Pasolini's Accattone and, say, Mustafa living in a migrant slum in Southern … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #63: FRANCESCO CHIODELLI
Daniela Giudici and Paolo Boccagni have recently published an article on the public/private interplay in the everyday lives of asylum seekers in Italy, stemming from the fieldwork conducted in the HOASI and HOMInG projects. The paper is part of vol. 40, issue 6 of Environment & Planning D - Society and Space. See the abstract below. Giudici, D., & … Leggi tutto ‘EXPOSING THE PRIVATE, ENGAGING IN THE PUBLIC: ASYLUM SEEKERS, INTIMATE PUBLICS AND NORMATIVE PERFORMANCES OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION’ (D. GIUDICI & P. BOCCAGNI, ‘E&P D – SOCIETY & SPACE’, 2022)
HOMInG, as a formally ERC-funded project, has been over for some months by now. While the project's former researchers will keep on publishing relevant materials for the next couple of years, it is worth taking stock of HOMInG's key findings. Across the project publications, and beyond, there are at least seven insights that speak to … Leggi tutto AFTER ‘HOMING’: SEVEN INSIGHTS ON HOME AND MIGRATION
Next week, on December 19-20, the final workshop of the HOASI project will take place at the Dpt of Sociology, University of Trento. See the programme. All welcome!
Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation at the second international conference of the interdisciplinary network Thanatic Ethics - The circulation of bodies in migratory spaces, in Kolkata next week. Paolo's presentation will be on: "Where should it be, and what should it look like? Mapping migrant imaginaries, moralities and aesthetics about their 'final homes'". See the … Leggi tutto HOMING @ THANATIC ETHICS: RESPONSE, REPAIR, TRANSFORMATION (CSSSC – KOLKATA, 13-14 DECEMBER)
Sara Bonfanti has recently published an article in Meridiana out of her HOMInG fieldwork in Brescia, Italy. The article investigates residential conflict in a Hindustani suburb in Brescia. How could we account - Bonfanti asks - of real estate speculation within an «ethnic» brokerage system, nourished by poor housing policies and micro-scale transnational capitalism? The case study reveals the … Leggi tutto CIRCULATING HOME ABROAD: REAL ESTATE ENTREPRENEURS IN AN ITALO-PUNJABI SUBURB (SARA BONFANTI, “MERIDIANA”, 2022)
Former hominger Luis Eduardo Pérez-Murcia has recently published a paper on the experience of home in relation to death and funerals among the members of transnational families. The paper, in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,draws on the author's HOMInG fieldwork with Peruvian and Ecuadorian people in Spain and in the UK. More info below. … Leggi tutto ‘MY SOUL STILL HURTS’: BRINGING DEATH AND FUNERALS INTO THE AGING-MIGRATION-HOME NEXUS (L.E. PEREZ MURCIA, ‘JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES’, 2022)
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 