The ninth and last life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2023), is about "Paola: Performing Memory and Reproducing Food Cultures", by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia. The author explores the intimate connections between food, mobility and home. Based on the life story of Paola, an Ecuadorian woman living in Manchester, Pérez … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_9: ‘PERFORMING MEMORY AND REPRODUCING FOOD CULTURES’
The eighth life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2023), is about "Sumant: The Home Recipe to Make a Move. Life Story of a Sikh Man in Britain", by Sara Bonfanti. The author examines foodways that reveal the bifurcation in diaspora communities. Part of a disadvantaged minority in his native area, … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_8: ‘THE HOME RECIPE TO MAKE A MOVE. LIFE STORY OF A SIKH MAN IN BRITAIN’
The seventh life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about "Cooking Multiple Homes by Revisiting Eritrean Food in London: The story of Makda", by Aurora Massa. The author shows how people not only negotiate and influence the meaning of their life, their home and their selves through food, but … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_7: ‘COOKING MULTIPLE HOMES BY REVISITING ERITREAN FOOD IN LONDON’
The sixth life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about "Yolanda: A Peruvian Care Worker on the Spanish Frontline", by Luis Eduardo Pérez-Murcia. The author relaborates on the life story of a Peruvian caregiver with a Spanish passport who has been living in Madrid since 2000, to explore two … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_6: ‘A PERUVIAN CARE WORKER ON THE SPANISH FRONTLINE’
Paolo Boccagni has recently published a commentary to a Special issue of Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, a "Quarterly of language, literature and culture". The Special issue, edited by Amina ElHalawani, is on Haunted by Homes. It includes valuable and original contributions from the field of literature and poetry studies, by scholars such as Fatemeh Shams, Lisa Marchi, Lars Eckstein, Russell West-Pavlov, and Amina ElHalawani. As … Leggi tutto ‘HAUNTING HOMES AND EMERGING DILEMMAS OF BEING IN THE WORLD’ (BY P. BOCCAGNI, ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK, 2023)
The fifth life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is " A Story of Accumulated Homelessness. Mateos, an Eritrean Refugee in Rome" by Aurora Massa and Milena Belloni. The authors recount the life story of Mateos, a man in his forties who has lived in Italy since 2005. This illuminates the different … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_5: ‘A STORY OF ACCUMULATED HOMELESSNESS’
The fourth life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about "Once We Relax, the Door of Trauma is Open: Aaron’ Life Story". Through this life story, Milena Belloni tells the life story of Aaron, an Eritrean man in his forties living in the Netherlands. While recounting the … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_4: ‘ONCE WE RELAX, THE DOOR OF TRAUMA IS OPEN’
The third life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about "Priya - Homing in the Global Job Market: the Life Story of an Indian Woman in the Netherlands". Through this life story, Sara Bonfanti highlights the predicaments faced by high-skilled migrants in making a home on the move. … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_3: ‘HOMING IN THE GLOBAL JOB MARKET’
The second life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about Miriam - One Essential Home (“Ecuador”), Another Existential Home (“With My Mother”), Many Houses In-Between. Based on a long-term ethnographic engagement, Paolo Boccagni reconstructs her story as a migration, housing and existential pathway in both Italy and … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_2: ‘ONE ESSENTIAL HOME (“ECUADOR”), ANOTHER EXISTENTIAL HOME (“WITH MY MOTHER”), MANY HOUSES IN-BETWEEN’
The first life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about Lucho, "a Peruvian religious minister in Manchester". His story, as written by Luis E. Perez Murcia, questions distinctions between different forms of human mobility and the assumption that attachment to a place called home is both a … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_1: ‘MOVED BY THE HAND OF GOD’
Former homingers Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara Bonfanti have just published, with Berghahn, Finding home in Europe: chronicles of global migrants. This is an edited collection of life stories co-produced along the life course of HOMInG with immigrant people coming from South America, India and the Horn of Africa. Bringing together their voices, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE: CHRONICLES OF GLOBAL MIGRANTS (PEREZ-MURCIA & BONFANTI, EDS., 2023)
Paolo Boccagni has recently authored a chapter on Homemaking in superdiverse public space within the Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity edited by Fran Meissner, Nando Sigona and Steve Vertovec (Oxford UP, 2022). See the abstract below. This chapter invites a systematic exploration of the interplay between superdiversity and homemaking in the public urban space. The notion of home, as a form of … Leggi tutto HOMEMAKING IN SUPERDIVERSE PUBLIC SPACE (P. BOCCAGNI, IN ‘OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SUPERDIVERSITY’, 2022)
Daniela Giudici and Paolo Boccagni have recently published an article on the public/private interplay in the everyday lives of asylum seekers in Italy, stemming from the fieldwork conducted in the HOASI and HOMInG projects. The paper is part of vol. 40, issue 6 of Environment & Planning D - Society and Space. See the abstract below. Giudici, D., & … Leggi tutto ‘EXPOSING THE PRIVATE, ENGAGING IN THE PUBLIC: ASYLUM SEEKERS, INTIMATE PUBLICS AND NORMATIVE PERFORMANCES OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION’ (D. GIUDICI & P. BOCCAGNI, ‘E&P D – SOCIETY & SPACE’, 2022)
HOMInG, as a formally ERC-funded project, has been over for some months by now. While the project's former researchers will keep on publishing relevant materials for the next couple of years, it is worth taking stock of HOMInG's key findings. Across the project publications, and beyond, there are at least seven insights that speak to … Leggi tutto AFTER ‘HOMING’: SEVEN INSIGHTS ON HOME AND MIGRATION
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 