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

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 Euro...

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Superior document:IMISCOE Research Series,
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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.
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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).