Travelling towards Home (eBook)

Tom Selwyn is Leverhulme Emeritus Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. For over a decade, he directed/co-directed research and development work for the European Commission’s TEMPUS and MED-HERITAGE programs in the Mediterranean region, and presently directs a project in rural tourism development in Ethiopia for the British Council and Department for International Development.

Nicola Frost has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has conducted fieldwork in Indonesia, Australia and the UK, working on community organization, multiculturalism, and the cultural politics of food and festivals. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at City University London and SOAS and now works for the Devon Community Foundation, doing research, data analysis and evaluation.

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Introduction: Home and Homemaking in a Time of Crisis
Tom Selwyn and Nicola Frost

Chapter 1. Homing Desires: Queer Young Asian Men in London
Chand Starin Basi and Kaveri Qureshi

Chapter 2. Homeawayness and Life-Project Building: Homemaking Among Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Shuhua Chen

Chapter 3. Between a Home and a Homeland: Experiences of Jewish Return Migrants in Ukraine
Marina Sapritsky

Chapter 4. Who Makes ‘Old England’ Home? Tourism and Migration in the English Countryside
Yuko Shioji

Chapter 5. Modalities of Space, Time, and Voice in Palestinian Hip-Hop Narratives
Ilana Webster-Kogan

Chapter 6. My Maluku Manise: Managing Desire and Despair in the Diaspora
Nicola Frost

Chapter 7. Anecdotes of Movement and Belonging: Intertwining Strands of the Professional and the Personal
Colin Murray

Afterword
Tom Selwyn

Index