Two HOMInG’s researchers will be involved in the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, to take place in Toronto next week (https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/). Paolo Boccagni will give two presentations: ‘For a Comparative Sociology of Home(s). Tracing Variations in a Universal Need and Practice across Settings, Notions and Emotions‘ and ‘Homing: An Emerging Conceptual Bridge between Migration Studies and Sociological Theory‘. He will also convene two sessions, one on ‘Migrant Home-Making in the Era of Fortified Borders‘ with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, the other on ‘Researching home: Choices, challenges, opportunities‘, with Maggie Kusenbach. Furthermore, Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia will give a presentation on ‘Remaking Home: A “journey” of a Lifetime‘.
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 