Paolo Boccagni will give a lecture at MiReKoc's Summer School on Urban Migration Governance in Istanbul, next 5 June. The school is part of the larger European BROAD-ER project. Paolo's lecture will be about The city as home? Ways, prospects and dilemmas of homemaking in the public. This lecture revisits the recent debate on home and homemaking on extra-domestic scales, including the … Leggi tutto HOMING @ BROAD-ER SUMMER SCHOOL ON URBAN MIGRATION GOVERNANCE: ‘THE CITY AS HOME?’
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)
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 9 by Enrico Fravega offers an overview of migrants’ home experience in informal settlements. Focusing on the case of an agro-industrial district in Southern Italy, and based on ethnographic fieldwork, … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_9: ‘LOOKING FOR HOMES IN MIGRANTS’ INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: A CASE STUDY FROM ITALY’ (BY E. FRAVEGA)
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 8 by Daniela Giudici explores migrants’ squats in marginal and “out of sight” urban areas, at the intersection of institutional neglect and alternative strategies for self-managed living. At times, migrants’ informal … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_8: ‘(IN)VISIBILITY: ON THE DOORSTEP OF A MEDIATIZED REFUGEES’ SQUAT’ (BY D. GIUDICI)
Paolo Boccagni and Enrico Fravega will present La lotta per il tempo ("Struggling for time", a book co-authored with Daniela Giudici) next Wednesday 24 April at the University of Bologna - Centro di Ricerca MODI (Mobilità, Diversità, Inclusione sociale - Chair: Bruno Riccio). The book draws on HOASI's multi-sited research on the multiple and contrasting temporalities that inform housing conditions and pathways of asylum seekers … Leggi tutto HOMING @ MODI (UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA) – LA LOTTA PER IL TEMPO / REFUGEE ‘STRUGGLES FOR TIME’ (24 APRIL)
Paolo Boccagni will participate in a Roundtable in the final event of the EU-funded project Merging - Integration for migrants, to take place in Brussels next 18 April. The final conference, on Housing initiatives as drivers of social inclusion, will include a panel discussion on How to rethink housing for migrants, refugees and newcomers in Europe, to ensure a sustainable … Leggi tutto HOMING @ MERGING’S FINAL CONFERENCE ON PARTICIPATORY HOUSING FOR REFUGEES (BRUSSELS, 18 APRIL)
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 7 by Paolo Boccagni approaches reception centres for asylum seekers, and “camps” more broadly, as a subject of increasing interest in refugee, housing and border studies. Only a fraction of … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_7: ‘ROOMS WITH LITTLE VIEW: RELUCTANT HOMEMAKING AND THE NEGOTIATION OF SPACE IN AN ASYLUM CENTRE’ (BY P. BOCCAGNI)
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 6 by Anna Pechurina draws on a study that examined the interrelation between home, migration and cultural identity, using home-based qualitative interviews as the main method of data collection. As … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_6: ‘VISITING HOME AS A METHOD AND EXPERIENCE: RESEARCHING RUSSIAN MIGRANTS’ HOMES IN THE UK’ (BY A. PECHURINA)
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 5 by Alejandro Miranda-Nieto starts from the premise that many migrants opt for shared accommodation as a way of coping with the shortage of affordable housing in large cities. As … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_5: ‘SHARED FLATS IN MADRID: ACCESSING AND ANALYSING MIGRANTS’ SENSE OF HOME’ (BY A. MIRANDA-NIETO)
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 4 by Sara Bonfantibuilds upon extensive ethnographic research with South Asian diasporas in Britain. To depict and disentangle the complexity of such migrant collectives, three case studies are considered, … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_4: ‘WELCOME UPON CONDITIONS: ON VISITING A MULTIGENERATIONAL IMMIGRANT HOUSE(HOLD)’ (BY S. BONFANTI)
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 3 by Francesco Vietti explores homemaking as a process that involves different generations of migrants, connecting multiple stories and scales of mobility: local, national, transnational. This is the case … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_3: ‘THE NEXT-DOOR MIGRANT: AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY HOME ENCOUNTERS ACROSS DIFFERENCE’ (BY F. VIETTI)
As a part of Migration and domestic space, an Open Access collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 2 by Adriano Cancellieri reflects on homemaking within a multicultural condominium in central Italy. Hotel House, located in the small town of Porto Recanati, is home to almost 2000 … Leggi tutto MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_2: ‘A HOUSE OF HOMES: ON THE MULTISCALARITY AND AMBIVALENCE OF HOMEMAKING IN A MULTICULTURAL CONDOMINIUM IN ITALY’ (BY A. CANCELLIERI)
As a part of Migration and domestic space, an Open Access collection of "ethnographies of home in the making" among migrants and refugees, the Introduction by Boccagni and Bonfanti is like a state of the art on the potential of domestic ethnography, in a larger frame of host-guest relationship, in migration and refugee studies. As the authors write, being … Leggi tutto ‘STRANGER, GUEST, RESEARCHER: A CASE FOR DOMESTIC ETHNOGRAPHY IN MIGRATION STUDIES’ (BOCCAGNI & BONFANTI, OA, 2023)
Enrico Fravega and Paolo Boccagni have recently published a chapter on Housing and Home in the new Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration, edited by G. Sciortino, M. Cvajner and P. Kivisto (Edward Elgar, 2024). The chapter draws a conceptual map of the linkages between home and housing for international migrants. Based mainly on the study of migration in the European context, … Leggi tutto ‘HOUSING AND HOME’ (E. FRAVEGA & P. BOCCAGNI, ‘RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION’, 2024)
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 