Tag: displacement

S. BONFANTI, P. BOCCAGNI: ‘FRONT DOORS AND BACKYARDS OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE’ (IN ‘MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT AND DIVERSITY – THE IRIS ANTHOLOGY’, 2023)

Sara Bonfanti and Paolo Boccagni have recently published a paper, based on HOMInG's fieldwork, within the new IRIS Anthology on Migration, Displacement and Diversity edited by  Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Anna Papoutsi, Nando Sigona and Paladia Ziss. This is how their chapter starts: "As a normative ideal of permanence and wellbeing, either as a place or condition, home does not resonate easily with migration and displacement. As our recent five-year … Leggi tutto S. BONFANTI, P. BOCCAGNI: ‘FRONT DOORS AND BACKYARDS OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE’ (IN ‘MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT AND DIVERSITY – THE IRIS ANTHOLOGY’, 2023)

HOMING @ UNIVERSITY OF BIELEFELD – ‘THE TRANSNATIONAL LENS’

Paolo Boccagni will give a seminar at the University of Bielefeld, next week, as a part of the Sociology of Transnationalization - the Transnational Lens series. The seminar, on 31 May at 4.00, will be On the portability of home across displacement and migration: a conceptual framework. Colloquium Series Sociology of Transnationalization “The Transnational Lens”  On the Portability of Home … Leggi tutto HOMING @ UNIVERSITY OF BIELEFELD – ‘THE TRANSNATIONAL LENS’

‘HAUNTING HOMES AND EMERGING DILEMMAS OF BEING IN THE WORLD’ (BY P. BOCCAGNI, ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK, 2023)

Paolo Boccagni has recently published a commentary to a Special issue of Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, a "Quarterly of language, literature and culture". The Special issue, edited by Amina ElHalawani, is on Haunted by Homes. It includes valuable and original contributions from the field of literature and poetry studies, by scholars such as Fatemeh Shams, Lisa Marchi, Lars Eckstein, Russell West-Pavlov, and Amina ElHalawani. As … Leggi tutto ‘HAUNTING HOMES AND EMERGING DILEMMAS OF BEING IN THE WORLD’ (BY P. BOCCAGNI, ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK, 2023)

HOMING @ ASA 2022: ‘SEEKING COMMON GROUND: DISPLACEMENT, HOME, AND BELONGING’

On August 6, Paolo Boccagni and Maggie Kusenbach will chair an invited session on  Seeking Common Ground: Displacement, Home, and Belonging at the Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association - ASA (Los Angeles, 5-9 August). The broader conference theme, chosen by ASA's President Cecilia Menjivar (see her homing interview here!), is Bureaucracies of Displacement.  1125 - Seeking Common Ground: Displacement, Home, and Belonging Sat, August 6, 8:00 … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ASA 2022: ‘SEEKING COMMON GROUND: DISPLACEMENT, HOME, AND BELONGING’

P. BOCCAGNI: AT HOME IN THE CENTRE? SPATIAL APPROPRIATION AND HORIZONS OF HOMEMAKING IN RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS (IN ‘MAKING HOME[S] IN DISPLACEMENT’, 2022)

Paolo Boccagni has written an overview and conceptual paper on homemaking in refugee centres, within a newly published and interdisciplinary study of homemaking and displacement. Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice, edited by Luce Beeckmans, Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh and Hilde Heynen, is an open-access book published by Leuven University Press (2022). See Paolo's chapter here.Quote: Boccagni … Leggi tutto P. BOCCAGNI: AT HOME IN THE CENTRE? SPATIAL APPROPRIATION AND HORIZONS OF HOMEMAKING IN RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS (IN ‘MAKING HOME[S] IN DISPLACEMENT’, 2022)

ACCUMULATED HOMELESSNESS: ANALYSING PROTRACTED DISPLACEMENT ALONG ERITREANS’ LIFE HISTORIES (M. BELLONI; A. MASSA, ‘JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES’, 2021)

How many times can refugees lose home? And how does this influence their aspirations and capabilities to make a new home? A new article by Milena Belloni and Aurora Massa in the Journal of Refugee Studies, based on their fieldwork into the housing pathways of Eritrean refugees in Europe, analyses protracted displacement through the lens … Leggi tutto ACCUMULATED HOMELESSNESS: ANALYSING PROTRACTED DISPLACEMENT ALONG ERITREANS’ LIFE HISTORIES (M. BELLONI; A. MASSA, ‘JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES’, 2021)

JASON HART: SAFE AS HOUSES? SHELTER AND HOME IN DISPLACEMENT CAMPS (VIDEO)

On HOMInG's seminar 38_19, prof. Jason Hart (University of Bath) presented his past and ongoing research on the experience of displacement and home among residents in refugee camps. See the abstract below. See the video here. Jason Hart (University of Bath) Safe as Houses?: Shelter and Home in Displacement Camps Forced displacement is commonly conceptualised as … Leggi tutto JASON HART: SAFE AS HOUSES? SHELTER AND HOME IN DISPLACEMENT CAMPS (VIDEO)

P. Boccagni: “Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe: (dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments” (with E. Righard)

Paolo Boccagni has just edited a Special Issue of the European Journal of Social Work with Erica Righard (Malmo University) on social work with asylum seekers, refugee and displaced people. See below the abstract of the Introduction,  Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe: (dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments.  The free eprint link is as follows:  https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/K8EZ35TJN3ZPKQ8EKJJE/full?target=10.1080/13691457.2020.1767941   Social … Leggi tutto P. Boccagni: “Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe: (dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments” (with E. Righard)

Rachael Kiddey: Documenting Displacement. A Contemporary Archaeologist’s Guide to Urban Ethnography (Video)

Upon HOMInG seminar 34_19, during the Trento School in Ethnography (September 2019), archeologist Rachael Kiddey (University of Oxford) gave a fascinating lecture out of her fieldwork experience with homeless and refugee people in "contemporary archeology". See a summary of Rachael's presentation below. https://youtu.be/PL6rWJ170mI Archaeology is the study of material culture and its relationship with people, past and present. Archaeological data – … Leggi tutto Rachael Kiddey: Documenting Displacement. A Contemporary Archaeologist’s Guide to Urban Ethnography (Video)

HOMING @ DISPLACEMENT & DOMESTICITY: REFUGEES, MIGRANTS AND EXPATS MAKING HOMES

HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni will give a keynote lecture at the end of the international workshop on: Displacement&Domesticity: Refugees, Migrants & Expats Making Homes, to take place in Brussels next March 28-20. The workshop has been promoted by EAHN - European Architectural History Network. The convenor is prof. Hilde Heynen (University of Leuven), together with her research group. The main workshop tracks will be on "Rethinking domesticity", "Practices", "Historical perspectives", … Leggi tutto HOMING @ DISPLACEMENT & DOMESTICITY: REFUGEES, MIGRANTS AND EXPATS MAKING HOMES