HOMING @ UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER: A WORKSHOP (MAY 9)

HOMInG’s Paolo Boccagni and Milena Belloni have been invited to give a presentation at the University of Manchester, in a workshop convened by Tanja Muller, as a part of the activities of the Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group. The workshop will take place next May 9 at  4pm. Paolo’s and Milena’s presentation draws from their recent fieldwork, respectively, in Ecuador and Eritrea. It discusses, in a comparative optic, the significance of migrant’s remittance houses as embodiments of their mixed connections and ambivalent positions towards the communities of origin. The ways of circulating home though migrant transnational housing investments will also be discussed.