Travelling towards Home

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, where she leads on impact, insight and learning, 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