Tag: Migration

HOMING @ IMISCOE 2024: ‘MIGRATION AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION: A REFLEXIVE TURN’ (LISBON, 2-5 JULY)

As a part of the IMISCOE annual conference in Lisbon, 2-5 July, Paolo Boccagni will participate in a twofold session, co-convened with Alejandro Miranda-Nieto, on Home as metaphor: Exploring emotional, material and heuristic dimensions of migration. The hybrid panels, on 2 July afternoon, will also include contributions from E. Busse-Cárdenas, Q. Chen, A.C. Corrales-Øverlid, E. Gubrium, K. Nikielska-Sekuła, M. … Leggi tutto HOMING @ IMISCOE 2024: ‘MIGRATION AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION: A REFLEXIVE TURN’ (LISBON, 2-5 JULY)

‘STRANGER, GUEST, RESEARCHER: A CASE FOR DOMESTIC ETHNOGRAPHY IN MIGRATION STUDIES’ (BOCCAGNI & BONFANTI, OA, 2023)

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)

‘HOUSING AND HOME’ (E. FRAVEGA & P. BOCCAGNI, ‘RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION’, 2024)

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 @ #ECAS2023 – AFRICAN FUTURES: ‘NO FUTURE YET’?

Paolo Boccagni will participate in the 2023 edition of the European Conference on African Studies in Cologne next week, dedicated to African Futures. Paolo's presentation is part of the Anth21 session "You have no future here: on speculative place-making, future-making, and migration", convened by Simon Turner and Loren Landau.  Paolo Boccagni No future yet? Exploring the futures-in-waiting of … Leggi tutto HOMING @ #ECAS2023 – AFRICAN FUTURES: ‘NO FUTURE YET’?

‘CALIBRATING HOME, HOSPITALITY AND RECIPROCITY IN MIGRATION’ (HARNEY & BOCCAGNI, ‘ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY’, 2022)

'CALIBRATING HOME, HOSPITALITY AND RECIPROCITY IN MIGRATION'  (HARNEY & BOCCAGNI, 'ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY', 2022) Nicholas Harney (UWO) and Paolo Boccagni have recently published an open-access article in Anthropological Theory.  The article revisits the anthropological debate on home and hospitality by advancing a notion of 'calibrated reciprocity', based on both authors' fieldwork. See the full citation and abstract below. Harney, N. D., & Boccagni, P. … Leggi tutto ‘CALIBRATING HOME, HOSPITALITY AND RECIPROCITY IN MIGRATION’ (HARNEY & BOCCAGNI, ‘ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY’, 2022)

HOMING @ ‘MIGRATION AND BELONGING IN TIMES OF CRISIS’ (GENEVA, 13-14 SEPTEMBER)

Paolo Boccagni will give an invited presentation at a workshop on Migration and belonging in times of crisis: Troubling Transnationalism and Home-Making in Latin American Trajectories to/from Europe, to take place in Geneva on 13-14 September. The workshop, promoted by the Geneva Graduate Institute and the Global Migration Centre, has been convened by Valerio Simoni, PI of the ERC project BETLIV … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ‘MIGRATION AND BELONGING IN TIMES OF CRISIS’ (GENEVA, 13-14 SEPTEMBER)

‘DO OBJECTS (RE)PRODUCE HOME AMONG INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS?’ (PEREZ-MURCIA AND BOCCAGNI, ‘JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES’, 2022)

Home has also to do with the materiality of certain objects in everyday life. What are the typical meanings and functions of these objects, and how far do they work as affordances for homemaking, among international migrants? Pérez-Murcia and Boccagni address these questions in a new article in the Journal of Intercultural Studies, drawing on HOMInG's fieldwork into … Leggi tutto ‘DO OBJECTS (RE)PRODUCE HOME AMONG INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS?’ (PEREZ-MURCIA AND BOCCAGNI, ‘JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES’, 2022)

HOMING: A CATEGORY FOR RESEARCH ON SPACE APPROPRIATION AND HOME-ORIENTED MOBILITIES (P. BOCCAGNI, ‘MOBILITIES’, 2022)

HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni has just published in Mobilities an open access article that revisits and advances further the project's theoretical approach, after five years of fieldwork.Homing: a category for research on space appropriation and ‘home-oriented’ mobilities https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2046977 Abstract This article is a conceptual invitation to homing, to revisit the everyday social experience of home as a situated manifestation of … Leggi tutto HOMING: A CATEGORY FOR RESEARCH ON SPACE APPROPRIATION AND HOME-ORIENTED MOBILITIES (P. BOCCAGNI, ‘MOBILITIES’, 2022)

HOMING @ “Social dynamics. Inequalities, integration, mobility and migration” (November 16-17)

HOMInG's Stefania Toma will present a co-authored paper, next week, at the international online conference Social dynamics. Inequalities, integration, mobility and migration (16-17 November). The conference is organized by the Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. Stefania's joint presentation with László Fosztó will be on "Going abroad for Making a Home at Home". See the abstract below. Stefánia Toma – … Leggi tutto HOMING @ “Social dynamics. Inequalities, integration, mobility and migration” (November 16-17)

Mirjana Lozanovska: Migrant Housing. Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (October 8 at 9am CET)

HOMInG’s seminar 42_20, online (via zoom), will be with Prof.  Mirjana Lozanovska (Deakin University, Melbourne) next October 8 at 9am, CET. Prof. Lozanovska will present and discuss, with "homingers" and other attendants, her recent book Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (Routledge, 2019). This will nourish a stimulating conversation between architects, sociologists, anthropologists and other scholars interested in housing, home and migration. Please register … Leggi tutto Mirjana Lozanovska: Migrant Housing. Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (October 8 at 9am CET)

P. BOCCAGNI, M. BIVAND-ERDAL: ON THE THEORETICAL POTENTIAL OF REMITTANCE HOUSES (JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 2020)

Why study migrant houses in countries of origin? The question, which informs a number of case studies across HOMInG's fieldwork, has been systematically addressed by Paolo Boccagni, together with Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO, Norway), in a paper recently published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.Migrant houses in countries of origin, referred to as … Leggi tutto P. BOCCAGNI, M. BIVAND-ERDAL: ON THE THEORETICAL POTENTIAL OF REMITTANCE HOUSES (JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 2020)

HOMInG at EASA 2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe

HOMInG’s Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia will present his paper "'I couldn't attend my mother's funeral and now I have to live with that': Exploring the interplay between migration, ageing and home" at EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), 16th Biennial Conference. 'I couldn't attend my mother's funeral and now I have to live with that': … Leggi tutto HOMInG at EASA 2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe

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)