Loretta Baldassar on Visits Home as kinning – and beyond (video)

Loretta Baldassar on Visits Home as kinning - and beyond The first 2017 seminar of HOMInG has been with Loretta Baldassar (UWA) on visits home - her long-standing topic of research, related to several cohorts of Italian migrants in Australia. Issues of care, distance, polymedia, co-presence and home are also touched upon. Theoretically, Loretta argues … Leggi tutto Loretta Baldassar on Visits Home as kinning – and beyond (video)

Migration and home-making: insights from applied anthropology in Italy (video)

The second HOMInG seminar (in Italian), within the meeting of SIAA (applied anthropology), gathered some anthropological case studies on home and migration. Participants: Roberta Altin (Social mapping of asylum seekers in reception facilities in Trieste); Sara Bonfanti (Domestic ethnography of Punjabi families in Italy); Giuseppe Grimaldi (Uses and meanings of the houses of Tigrina returnees … Leggi tutto Migration and home-making: insights from applied anthropology in Italy (video)