S. BONFANTI, P. BOCCAGNI: ‘FRONT DOORS AND BACKYARDS OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE’ (IN ‘MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT AND DIVERSITY – THE IRIS ANTHOLOGY’, 2023)

Sara Bonfanti and Paolo Boccagni have recently published a paper, based on HOMInG’s fieldwork, within the new IRIS Anthology on Migration, Displacement and Diversity edited by  Laurence Lessard-PhillipsAnna PapoutsiNando Sigona and Paladia Ziss. This is how their chapter starts: “As a normative ideal of permanence and wellbeing, either as a place or condition, home does not resonate easily with migration and displacement. As our recent five-year ERC HOMInG project proved, the lived experience of home, its loss or pursuit, and continuous making or unmaking for people on the move, constitutes an effective tool with which to study various forms of mobility, as well as to understand the possibilities of living together with difference. This short entry builds on fresh ethnographic findings that reflect the authors’ approach to understanding human movement and settlement, while ensuring diversity in post-migration societies. Drawing on ordinary tussles in a superdiverse neighbourhood, we reflect on the multi-scale and processual nature of home-making for a migrant household”.