Paolo Boccagni will participate in the workshop "Theorizing transience: Temporary migrations in the Middle-East and the Pacific" convened by Anju Paul, Laure Assaf and Brenda Yeoh at NYU Abu Dhabi (19-21 November). Paolo's presentation will be on "Theorizing home in transience: Commonalities and dilemmas in place attachment and appropriation across temporary mobilities". 

On 6 November, at 12pm local time, Paolo Boccagni will give a guest lecture at McGill University, in the ISID Series, convened by the McGill Refugee Research Group. Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento) Undoing nothing: Waiting for asylum, struggling for relevance This lecture unpacks the complex ways in which "home" matters for refugee studies, as well as for those … Leggi tutto HOMING @ MCGILL UNIVERSITY: “UNDOING NOTHING” AND APPROACHING QUESTIONS OF “HOME” IN REFUGEE STUDIES

On 3 November, at 12pm local time, Paolo Boccagni will give a lecture at the University of Ottawa, as a part of the Migration and Diaspora Studies group activities. The lecture revisits, and elaborates upon, some aspects of the recently published monograph Undoing Nothing. See more details below... Wearing sedentariness, Dreaming of mobility. Slippers, sneakers, and the … Leggi tutto HOMING @ CARLETON UNIVERSITY: ‘WEARING SEDENTARINESS, DREAMING OF MOBILITY. SLIPPERS, SNEAKERS AND THE TENSION BETWEEN SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS IN A PLACE FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS’

Paolo Boccagni will visit the Faculty of Social Science at Western University on 27-30 November. During his stay, Paolo will give talks at the Human Environments Analysis Lab (HEAL), at the Western Ethnography Lab (WE-ColLab), and at the Migration and Ethnic Relations (MER) Research Centre.

Former Hominger Alejandro Miranda-Nieto, now at Oslo Met University, has just published (together with E. Gubrium) an OA article in Ethnic and Racial Studies. The paper draws on Alejandro's HOMInG fieldwork in the Netherlands, and on his ongoing conceptualization of home, familiarity, social practices, and the senses. See the abstract below. Miranda-Nieto, A., & Gubrium, E. … Leggi tutto NEW ARTICLE: ‘SOMATIC AGENCY AND THE SENSORY CONSTRUCTION OF FAMILIARITY AMONG ECUADORIAN MIGRANTS IN THE NETHERLANDS’ (BY A. MIRANDA-NIETO & E. GUBRIUM, ‘ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES’, 2025)

Next 9 October at 12, in the MPC Seminar Series (EUI - Robert Schumann Centre), Paolo Boccagni will present his new book Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance (University of California Press, OA, 2025). The seminar, in presence and online, is convened by Martin Ruhs and Andrew Geddes, and chaired by Lorenzo Piccoli. See the description below. In this … Leggi tutto ‘UNDOING NOTHING’ BOOK PRESENTATION (9 OCTOBER, IN PRESENCE AND ONLINE)

Within the final workshop of the PRIN WELL-MIG project, Paolo Boccagni will give an invited lecture on "Beyond the here-now: Interrogating the temporal, spatial and relational scales of well-being in migration". The CNR-IRPPS workshop, on "Migration and subjective well-being in Italy and Europe", will take place on 16 September in Rome. The following day, again hosted by CNR-IRPPS, he will present and … Leggi tutto HOMING @ CNR-IRPPS (ROME): “SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN MIGRATION” (16 SEPTEMBER) AND “VITE FERME” (17 SEPTEMBER)

As a part of Migration and domestic space, an OA collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 10  by Sara Bonfanti and Barbara Bertolani explores the lived experience of home in extra-domestic settings such as migrant houses of worship. By their very name, houses of worship are often seen and … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_10: ‘ATTENDING HOUSES OF WORSHIP AS HOMES OUT OF THE HOME’ (BY S. BONFANTI & B. BERTOLANI)