HOMING INTERVIEW #19 with Maja Korac-Sanderson Reader in Refugee and Migration Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London. Conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia in London in July 2018 "While I was still living in Belgrade, and at the height of nationalistic frensy in the country, I felt … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #19: MAJA KORAC-SANDERSON
The MIUR-FARE HOASI project, to study the home experience of asylum seekers and refugees in Italy, is moving one step forward. As a result of the recruitment process, two researchers have been selected: anthropologist Daniela Giudici and sociologist Enrico Fravega. They will start to work in the project in early 2019. Meanwhile, three HOASI-related events will be organized at … Leggi tutto HOASI – HOME AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN ITALY: MOVING FORWARD
HOMING INTERVIEW # 18: Anne Sigfrid Grønseth Professor in Social Anthropology at Lillehammer University College Conducted by Aurora Massa in Stockholm on 16 August 2018 "During our research, we found asylum seekers engaged in what we would call homemaking processes: they buy things they like, they often have brought small things with them – such as … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #18: Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni and Aurora Massa will participate in an international conference convened by MIM at Malmo University next October 24-26. This is a large international conference on Refugees, Borders and Membership. Paolo Boccagni will contribute to a workshop on Shelter, Housing, Home – Governance and Everyday Encounters Among Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Other Displaced Groups in Europe, convened … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ MALMO – MIM CONFERENCE ON REFUGEES, BORDERS AND MEMBERSHIP
On HOMInG seminar 20_18, last June, Deirdre McKay (Keele University) gave an in-depth and fascinating account of her extended ethnography of Filipino families and of their transnational practices. At the core of her presentation lies the complex function and impact of balikbayan, the boxes of used goods migrants send back to the Philippines. As McKay explains, "Setting the demands of one home against … Leggi tutto Deirdre McKay: Home against home – Unpacking an ethics of home-making in the Filipino diaspora (video)
"Ethnic" restaurants and the reproduction of home in the public, or from afar: fieldnotes from Madrid by Paolo Boccagni Talking about home and studying homemaking, in people's everyday life, may be a matter of very mundane and unexotic topics. One of them is certainly food. There is much true, and little new, in the idea that "ethnic" … Leggi tutto Paolo Boccagni: “Ethnic” restaurants and the reproduction of home in the public, or from afar: fieldnotes from Madrid
HOMInG seminar no. 22_18 will be with Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento) next October 10 at 11am, Dpt. of Sociology, Trento. See the abstract below. All welcome! A.M. Brighenti (University of Trento) Urban thresholds and modes of domestication In this lecture, I propose to explore urban space through the notion of threshold. The latter … Leggi tutto New seminar – A.M. Brighenti: Urban thresholds and modes of domestication
HOMING INTERVIEW #17: GHASSAN HAGE Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, University of Melbourne, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Conducted by Sara Bonfanti on 12 Sept. 2018 - University of Trento "Occupying a space does not necessarily mean you develop a homely attachment to it. That’s the case of many migrants: some of them … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #17: GHASSAN HAGE
PNINA WERBNER - MIGRATION AND THE SACRALISATION OF NEW HOMES As transnational migrants settle in a new country, they transplant and naturalize cultural objects, performances and categories, not simply because this is their tradition or culture, but because as active agents they have a stake in particular aspects of their culture. ‘Culture’ as a medium of social interaction confers … Leggi tutto HOMInG WORKING PAPER NO. 4_2018: PNINA WERBNER – MIGRATION AND THE SACRALISATION OF NEW HOMES
HOMInG interview #16: Tom Scott Smith Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Conducted by Ilka Vari-Lavoisier on 11 September 2018 "The things that made people’s experience, or daily life, difficult when living in shelters often came down to whether or not they could control what they ate, whether or … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #16: Tom Scott-Smith
Searching for whose homes? A presentation on the riddles of ethnographic comparison (video) Last June, HOMInG's Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda presented a paper (co-authored with Aurora Massa) at the "Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa" conference at the University of Bergamo. This was a methodological reflection on the comparative potential of their evolving HOMInG fieldwork. The … Leggi tutto S. Bonfanti & A. Miranda: “Searching for whose homes? The riddles of ethnographic comparison” (VIDEO)
Homing Interview #15: Dirk Geldof HOMInG interview with Dirk Geldof Senior Lecturer at the University of Antwerp and at Odisee University College Brussels. Conducted by Milena Belloni in Berchem, Antwerpen on 12th July, 2018. Photos by Jorge Alcalde. Extracts from the series "Antwerp... in the year 5777" : the Jewish quarter” and "A stroke of light...the neighbourhood" … Leggi tutto HOMInG interview #15: Dirk Geldof
HOMInG's seminar 21_18, next September 11 at 6pm, will be with prof. Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne). The seminar will be on The production of homeliness. See more details below. All welcome @UniTrento Dpt of Sociology, 3rd Floor, 6pm. The production of homeliness: inside and outside the logic of generalized domestication Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne) Generalised Domestication, as I … Leggi tutto A SEMINAR WITH GHASSAN HAGE: THE PRODUCTION OF HOMELINESS – INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE LOGIC OF GENERALIZED DOMESTICATION
Within the new HOASI project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (under FARE grants), two postdoctoral positions have been opened at the University of Trento. Two researchers will be recruited to work, under the supervision of Paolo Boccagni, on home and asylum seekers in Italy: the housing arrangements and careers of asylum seekers and refugees in the country, in the … Leggi tutto HOASI Call for positions: ten days left!
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 