Paolo Boccagni is Professor in Sociology at the University of Trento. A former European Research Council grantee, he has done extensive research and writing on migration, home, diversity and social welfare. Starting from everyday life, his fieldwork tries to scale up and out local insights and findings by way of comparison, resonance, metaphor, and functional equivalence. He is about to conclude a research cycle on the lived experience of home, with a particular focus on temporalities and on the ways of negotiating “nothingness” and ambivalence in asylum reception facilities. Other emerging research concerns involve the social study of shared housing and dwelling, as well as the practice of homing, the production and scaling of relevance, the social working of metaphor, the ways of coping with absence and distance, the encounter with death in migration and the significance of future-related imaginaries and practices. Recent publications include Home in question (coauth., European Jrl. of Cultural Studies, 2022), Of home-comings and home-scales (coauth., Global networks, 2022), Migration and domestic space (co-ed, OA, Springer, 2023), the Handbook on home and migration (ed., Elgar, 2023), La lotta per il tempo (“The struggle for time”, coauth., Meltemi, 2023), Vite ferme (“Still Lives”, Il Mulino, 2024) and Undoing nothing: Waiting for asylum, struggling for relevance (2025)