HOMING INTERVIEW #20: DEIRDRE MCKAY
Reader in SocialGeography and Environmental Politics at Keele University.
Conducted by PaoloBoccagni in Trento, 21 June 2018
“For lower skilled and undocumented migrants it is very difficult to make anything that would resemble a home. My Filipino respondents would never describe the places they lived as home. There was not enough space there, they could not decorate them in a way they liked, nor have personal mementos displayed… so this wasn’t home, because my respondents believed home to be a place where the material culture is about them, their history, their taste… they were embarassed about their UK living spaces, but proud of the ones they were making in the Philipipines”.
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 