Paolo Boccagni will participate in IMISCOE's Annual conference next week at ICM - Aubervilliers - Paris. Within a session on "Death, dying and memorialisation", convened by A. Hunter (University of Glasgow) on July 2 (10-50-12-20), Paolo will give a presentation on Homing on death through migration studies: A conceptual inquiry and its implications. See the abstract below. Homing … Leggi tutto HOMING @ IMISCOE 2025: DECENTERING MIGRATION STUDIES (PARIS, 1-4 JULY)
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)
Former hominger Luis Eduardo Pérez-Murcia has recently published a paper on the experience of home in relation to death and funerals among the members of transnational families. The paper, in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,draws on the author's HOMInG fieldwork with Peruvian and Ecuadorian people in Spain and in the UK. More info below. … Leggi tutto ‘MY SOUL STILL HURTS’: BRINGING DEATH AND FUNERALS INTO THE AGING-MIGRATION-HOME NEXUS (L.E. PEREZ MURCIA, ‘JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES’, 2022)
On HOMInG's seminar 42_20, Prof. Mirjana Lozanovska (Deakin University, Melbourne) gave a special presentation of her recent book Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (Routledge, 2019). Drawing from the author's original theoretical elaboration and from her extended fieldwork experience between urban Australia and rural Macedonia, the presentation makes a powerful case for interdisciplinary research on migrant housing. See the video. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jVdzX0Y_kyA
P. Boccagni, L.E. Pérez Murcia: Fixed places, shifting distances: remittance houses and migrants’ negotiation of home in Ecuador ("Migration Studies", 2020) HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni and Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia have just published a paper, in Migration Studies, which highlights the significance of "remittance houses" to investigate migrants' positions, interests and life projects, relative to their countries of … Leggi tutto P. Boccagni, L.E. Pérez Murcia: Fixed places, shifting distances: remittance houses and migrants’ negotiation of home in Ecuador (“Migration Studies”, 2020)
A reflexive methodological article on HOMInG's research, co-authored by the HOMInG research team, has just been published in Espace et Societé, 3/2019 (no. 178, pp. 103-120). The paper is part of a Special Issue on "Multi-sited approaches", edited by Virginie Baby-Collin and Geneviève Cortes. See below the title and abstract of HOMInG's collective piece. The paper is available … Leggi tutto NEW PUBLICATION: COLLECTIVE THINKING IN THE FIELD: DISTRIBUTED COGNITION IN LARGE-SCALE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
HOMInG has just opened a new postdoctoral position, one-year long, to recruit a researcher with a strong expertise in quantitative techniques, data collection and analysis in migration studies. All those interested should apply, online only, before February 17 at the following link: https://www.unitn.it/ateneo/bando/55420/dipartimento-di-sociologia-e-ricerca-sociale-avviso-di-selezione-per-il-conferimento-di-n-1-assegno&source=gmail&ust=1545483221969000&usg=AFQjCNEcAb93g3DHKmbWL7JU75IjyI60Qg More info: paolo.boccagni@unitn.it
The second seminar of HOMInG in 2018 (HS 15_18) will take place next February 27 at 4pm, Dpt. of Sociology. It will be based on three presentations by new HOMInG researchers Ilka Vari-Lavoisier, Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Milena Belloni. See below for more details. As usual, All welcome! HS 15_18: From migration and refugee studies to … Leggi tutto NEW SEMINAR – From migration and refugee studies to homing… and beyond: Ilka Vari-Lavoisier, Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, Milena Belloni
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 