Migration and domestic space : : ethnographies of home in the making / / edited by Paolo Boccagni, Sara Bonfanti.

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series,
• HerausgeberIn: Boccagni, Paolo.; Bonfanti, Sara.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 255 pages) :; illustrations.

This open access book provides insight into the domestic space of people with an immigrant or refugee background. It selects and compares a whole spectrum of dwelling conditions with ethnographic material covering a variety of national backgrounds – Latin America, North and West Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia – and an equally broad range of housing, household and legal arrangements. It provides a fine-grained understanding of migrants’ lived experience of their domestic space and shows the critical significance of the lived space of a house as a microcosm of societal constellations of identities, values and inequalities. The book enhances the connection between migration studies and research into housing, social reproduction, domesticity and material culture and provides an interesting read to scholars in migration studies, policy makers and practitioners with a remit in local housing and integration policies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Stranger, Guest, Researcher – A Case for Domestic Ethnography in Migration Studies (Paolo Boccagni and Sara Bonfanti) -- 2. A House of Homes: On the Multiscalarity and Ambivalence of Homemaking in a Multicultural Condominium in Italy (Adriano Cancellieri) -- 3. The Next-Door Migrant: Autoethnography of Everyday Home Encounters across Difference (Francesco Vietti) -- 4. Welcome upon Conditions: On Visiting a Multigenerational Immigrant House(hold) (Sara Bonfanti) -- 5. Shared Flats in Madrid: Accessing and Analysing Migrants’ Sense of Home (Alejandro Miranda-Nieto) -- 6. ‘Visiting Home’ as a Method and Experience: Researching Russian Migrants’ Homes in the UK (Anna Pechurina) -- 7. Rooms with Little View: Reluctant Homemaking and the Negotiation of Space in an Asylum Centre (Paolo Boccagni) -- 8. (In)Visibility: On the Doorstep of a Mediatized Refugees’ Squat (Daniela Giudic) -- 9. Looking for Homes in Migrants’ Informal Settlements: A Case Study from Italy (Enrico Fravega) -- 10. Attending Houses of Worship as Homes Out of the Home (Sara Bonfanti and Barbara Bertolani) -- 11. Transnational Circulation of Home Through Objects: A Multisited Ethnography in Peruvian ‘Homes’ (Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia) -- 12. Migrant Domestic Space as Kinship Space: Dwelling in the “Distant Home” of One’s in-Laws (Barbara Bertolani) -- 13. Whose Homes? Approaching the Lived Experience of “Remittance Houses” from Within (Paolo Boccagni and Gabriel Echeverria).