Tag: Sara Bonfanti

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)

FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_9: ‘PERFORMING MEMORY AND REPRODUCING FOOD CULTURES’

The ninth and last life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2023), is about "Paola: Performing Memory and Reproducing Food Cultures", by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia. The author explores the intimate connections between food, mobility and home. Based on the life story of Paola, an Ecuadorian woman living in Manchester, Pérez … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_9: ‘PERFORMING MEMORY AND REPRODUCING FOOD CULTURES’

FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_8: ‘THE HOME RECIPE TO MAKE A MOVE. LIFE STORY OF A SIKH MAN IN BRITAIN’

The eighth life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2023), is about "Sumant: The Home Recipe to Make a Move. Life Story of a Sikh Man in Britain", by Sara Bonfanti. The author examines foodways that reveal the bifurcation in diaspora communities. Part of a disadvantaged minority in his native area, … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_8: ‘THE HOME RECIPE TO MAKE A MOVE. LIFE STORY OF A SIKH MAN IN BRITAIN’

FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_3: ‘HOMING IN THE GLOBAL JOB MARKET’ 

The third life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about "Priya - Homing in the Global Job Market: the Life Story of an Indian Woman in the Netherlands". Through this life story, Sara Bonfanti highlights the predicaments faced by high-skilled migrants in making a home on the move. … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_3: ‘HOMING IN THE GLOBAL JOB MARKET’ 

FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_1: ‘MOVED BY THE HAND OF GOD’

The first life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2022), is about Lucho, "a Peruvian religious minister in Manchester".  His story, as written by Luis E. Perez Murcia, questions distinctions between different forms of human mobility and the assumption that attachment to a place called home is both a … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_1: ‘MOVED BY THE HAND OF GOD’

FINDING HOME IN EUROPE: CHRONICLES OF GLOBAL MIGRANTS (PEREZ-MURCIA & BONFANTI, EDS., 2023)

Former homingers Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara Bonfanti have just published, with Berghahn, Finding home in Europe: chronicles of global migrants. This is an edited collection of life stories co-produced along the life course of HOMInG with immigrant people coming from South America, India and the Horn of Africa. Bringing together their voices, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE: CHRONICLES OF GLOBAL MIGRANTS (PEREZ-MURCIA & BONFANTI, EDS., 2023)

CIRCULATING HOME ABROAD: REAL ESTATE ENTREPRENEURS IN AN ITALO-PUNJABI SUBURB (SARA BONFANTI, “MERIDIANA”, 2022)

Sara Bonfanti has recently published an article in Meridiana out of her HOMInG fieldwork in Brescia, Italy. The article investigates residential conflict in a Hindustani suburb in Brescia. How could we account - Bonfanti asks - of real estate speculation within an «ethnic» brokerage system, nourished by poor housing policies and micro-scale transnational capitalism? The case study reveals the … Leggi tutto CIRCULATING HOME ABROAD: REAL ESTATE ENTREPRENEURS IN AN ITALO-PUNJABI SUBURB (SARA BONFANTI, “MERIDIANA”, 2022)

FROM BREADWINNER TO BEDRIDDEN: VULNERABLE TALES OF A LABOR MIGRANT HOUSEHOLD IN ITALY (S. BONFANTI, ‘FOCAAL’, 2022)

Former hominger Sara Bonfanti has recently published an article, From breadwinner to bedridden: Vulnerable tales of a labor migrant household in Italy, in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.The article is part of a Special Issue on Vulnerable homes on the move edited by Sara Bonfanti together with Aurora Massa and Shuhua Chen. From breadwinner to bedridden: Vulnerable tales of a … Leggi tutto FROM BREADWINNER TO BEDRIDDEN: VULNERABLE TALES OF A LABOR MIGRANT HOUSEHOLD IN ITALY (S. BONFANTI, ‘FOCAAL’, 2022)

VULNERABLE HOMES ON THE MOVE (BONFANTI & MASSA, ‘FOCAAL’, 2022)

Former homingers Sara Bonfanti and Aurora Massa have just edited, together with S. Chen, a theme section of Focaal, a leading journal of "global and historical anthropology". The section is OA, including the authors' co-authored introduction, Vulnerable homes on the move. See the abstract of the Introduction below.Abstract In a world of rampant inequality, when millions seek out better futures elsewhere, this introduction situates … Leggi tutto VULNERABLE HOMES ON THE MOVE (BONFANTI & MASSA, ‘FOCAAL’, 2022)

OF DOMES AND ROBES – COME IL CULTO SI FA CASA (BY SARA BONFANTI & WAJAHAT A. KAZMI) IS NOW OUT! 

Drums roll, trumpets blow: Of Domes and Robes - Come il culto si fa casa, is finally out! Hiccuping through the pandemic, this docu short adds to the complexity of migrants' homemaking under uncertain conditions. Was there any space left for minority worship, let alone for live shooting, when distancing was mandatory? The film will be screened in its hometown … Leggi tutto OF DOMES AND ROBES – COME IL CULTO SI FA CASA (BY SARA BONFANTI & WAJAHAT A. KAZMI) IS NOW OUT! 

SARA BONFANTI: OUR MINIMUM DWELLING SPACE – DESI WEAR AT HOME AND AWAY (VIDEO)

On HOMInG seminar 51_21, last April, Sara Bonfanti presented findings of her fieldwork on the meanings and uses of salwar-kameez – the Punjabi suit – by combining fashion theory and social anthropology. Based on multisited ethnography, artwork and a digital survey, Sara considered the “sartorial biographies” of three Muslim women moved from South Asia to Europe. Caught in the seams … Leggi tutto SARA BONFANTI: OUR MINIMUM DWELLING SPACE – DESI WEAR AT HOME AND AWAY (VIDEO)

SARA BONFANTI, ‘FAMILY NARRATIVES AND MOVING INTIMACIES IN AN INDIAN DIASPORA’ (IN ‘FAMILY PRACTICES IN MIGRATION’, 2021)

Former HOMInGer Sara Bonfanti has recently published a chapter on “Family narratives and moving intimacies in an Indian diaspora” within the volume edited by Martha Montero-Sieburth et. al, Family Practices in Migration Everyday Lives and Relationships, pp. 154-171, Routledge 2021. This book places family at the centre of discussions about migration and migrant life, seeing migrants … Leggi tutto SARA BONFANTI, ‘FAMILY NARRATIVES AND MOVING INTIMACIES IN AN INDIAN DIASPORA’ (IN ‘FAMILY PRACTICES IN MIGRATION’, 2021)

HOMING @ ‘BREAKING THE RULES?’ – SIEF 2021 CONFERENCE

SIEF2021 15th Congress Helsinki, Finland19-24 June 2021 BREAKING THE RULES? POWER, PARTICIPATION, TRANSGRESSION “We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.” – François Rabelais Former Hominger Sara Bonfanti will give a talk in the upcoming SIEF Congress under the Stream Mobility within the Panel Highly skilled migrants: challenging ‘integration’ categories  convened … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ‘BREAKING THE RULES?’ – SIEF 2021 CONFERENCE

HOMING SEMINAR (APRIL 23, 10 CET): OUR MINIMUM DWELLING SPACE – DESI WEAR AT HOME AND AWAY (BY S. BONFANTI)

In HOMInG's seminar 51_21, Sara Bonfanti focuses on the narrative travels of salwar-kameez - the Punjabi suit - by combining fashion theory and social anthropology. At the crossroad between homemade and retailed clothing, this versatile three-piece garment is widely worn among South Asian men and women, as a gendered embodiment of ethnic pride, religious modesty, overthrown subaltern identity. Based … Leggi tutto HOMING SEMINAR (APRIL 23, 10 CET): OUR MINIMUM DWELLING SPACE – DESI WEAR AT HOME AND AWAY (BY S. BONFANTI)