MIGRATION & DOMESTIC SPACE_8: ‘(IN)VISIBILITY: ON THE DOORSTEP OF A MEDIATIZED REFUGEES’ SQUAT’ (BY D. GIUDICI) 

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) 

HOMING @ MODI (UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA) – LA LOTTA PER IL TEMPO / REFUGEE ‘STRUGGLES FOR TIME’ (24 APRIL)

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)

‘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)

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)

CFP – ‘STRUGGLING FOR TIME: FORCED MIGRANTS’ HOMEMAKING ACROSS CONTESTED TEMPORALITIES’ (HOASI FINAL WORKSHOP, 19-20 DECEMBER)

The research team of HOASI (Home and Asylum Seekers in Italy), a fellow project of HOMInG, have recently issued a call for papers for the final symposium, to take place in Trento next 19 and 20 December. 250-word abstracts (English or Italian) should be submitted to enrico.fravega@unige.it - daniela.giudici@unitn.it by 29 October.  convegno-hoasi_call-1Download

‘ENTERING INTO DOMESTIC HOSPITALITY FOR REFUGEES: A CRITICAL INQUIRY THROUGH A MULTI-SCALAR VIEW OF HOME’ (BOCCAGNI & GIUDICI, ‘IDENTITIES’, 2021)

HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni and Daniela Giudici (HOASI, Univ. of Trento) have just published a study of domestic hospitality for refugees in Italy, approached through a multiscalar understanding of home. The article is available as online first in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Paolo Boccagni & Daniela Giudici (2021) Entering into domestic hospitality for refugees: a critical inquiry through a … Leggi tutto ‘ENTERING INTO DOMESTIC HOSPITALITY FOR REFUGEES: A CRITICAL INQUIRY THROUGH A MULTI-SCALAR VIEW OF HOME’ (BOCCAGNI & GIUDICI, ‘IDENTITIES’, 2021)

Daniela Giudici: “Notes from IMISCOE 2020 Spring Conference”

Notes from IMISCOE 2020 Spring Conference by Daniela Giudici IMISCOE Spring Conference 2020 took place at the Geographic and Spatial Planning Institute (IGOT) in Lisbon (6-7 February). As some researchers remarked during the opening ceremony, the sun shined over the conference and a genuine “spring” temperature made Lisbon a very pleasant place where to escape … Leggi tutto Daniela Giudici: “Notes from IMISCOE 2020 Spring Conference”

HOMInG @ HOUSING AND MIGRATION IN UNCERTAIN TIMES – IMISCOE SPRING CONFERENCE, LISBON

Several researchers from HOMInG and HOASI will participate in the Imiscoe Spring conference to take place at IGOT, University of Lisbon, on February 6-7. In particular, Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation on “... as if it is your home”: Homemaking and the negotiation of care, privacy and control in an asylum reception facility in … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ HOUSING AND MIGRATION IN UNCERTAIN TIMES – IMISCOE SPRING CONFERENCE, LISBON

HOMEMAKING AND FORCED MIGRATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (HOMING-HOASI WP 5_2019, BY DANIELA GIUDICI)

Homemaking and forced migration: A bibliography (pdf) The literature on forced migration, particularly to Europe, has exponentially grown in the past few years. Indeed following the so called 2015 European “refugee crisis”, issues of refugees and asylum politics have been met with renewed interest, in scholarly as well as in public debate. Yet, it is … Leggi tutto HOMEMAKING AND FORCED MIGRATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (HOMING-HOASI WP 5_2019, BY DANIELA GIUDICI)