Handbook on Home and Migration

Edited by Paolo Boccagni, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy

Contents:

1 Introduction: home and migration – setting the terms of belonging and
place-making on the move 1
Paolo Boccagni

PART I BACKGROUNDS
2 Migrants of identity: cosmopolitan actors at home in the world 30
Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson
3 Home and forced migration 42
Giorgia Donà, Cathrine Brun and Anita Fábos
4 Housing studies, migration and home 55
Keith Jacobs
5 The migrant house: the meaning of its architecture and materiality 66
Iris Levin
6 Towards a social history of home and migration 77
Rosa Salzberg
7 Moving toward home away from home: a cultural psychology
perspective on home and migration 90
Mariann Märtsin and Annela Samuel
8 Between longing and belonging: home, homemaking and diasporas 100
Jayani Bonnerjee
9 The paradox of home: an interview with Les Back 112

PART II QUESTIONS
10 Senses of home in the modern world 121
Gordon Mathews
11 Temporalities of migration and homemaking 131
Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Franchesca Morais
12 Governing the state as a home: domopolitics and migration 145
William Walters
13 Settler colonialism and home 158
Ariel Handel and Hagar Kotef
14 Home and the politics of location and displacement 170
Halleh Ghorashi
15 On the biopsychosocial impacts of extreme domicide 183
Bree Akesson
16 Home, nativism and migration 195
Jan Willem Duyvendak
17 Moving from home to accommodation – a conceptual alternative for the
historical manipulation of home for violent and exclusionary ends: an
interview with Barak Kalir 206

PART III LIVED EXPERIENCE
18 Home and homemaking in local and transnational family lives 215
Angelie Marilla and Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
19 Feeling at home: migrant homemaking through the senses 228
Diana Mata-Codesal
20 Making home through memories and ritualised social practices 239
Anastasia Christou
21 Moving bricks: strategies for a genealogy of housing, migration, and
social movements 252
Araceli Masterson-Algar and Edward Jackiewicz
22 Home and homemaking during refugee journeys 265
Elina Paju, Lena Näre and Paula Merikoski
23 Migration, home, and homemaking in contemporary visual art 279
Helen Underhill
24 Fictions of home: contemporary Palestinian narratives of migration 291
Yasmine Shamma
25 Religion, immigration, and homemaking: an interview with Peter Kivisto 304

PART IV SCALES AND MATERIALITIES
26 The importance of the housing market for the housing opportunities of
immigrants 313
Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen and Hans Skifter Andersen
27 Diasporic housing and the ‘valuing’ of home 328
Lauren Wagner
28 Migrants’ homemaking practices in shared housing 338
Zahra Nasreen
29 Refugee housing and homing: negotiating self and humanity 350
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
30 The works of homemaking: migration, domestic materiality, and everyday life 365
Marta Vilar Rosales
31 Scaling down migrant homemaking: home possessions and the
embodied experience of home 377
Anna Pechurina
32 A (dis)connected homescape: the promise, limits, and paradox of
migrants’ homemaking practices in the digital age 388
Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Xinyu Zhao

PART V DIFFERENCES AND INEQUALITIES
33 Gendering home and migration 400
Annabelle Wilkins
34 Migration and home in research with children and young people: story,
participation, agency 411
Marta Moskal
35 Homemaking and cohousing by postcolonial migrants in later life 426
Louise Meijering and Ajay Bailey
36 Making home at the borders of citizenship: migrants, home, and (il)legality 438
Paola Bonizzoni, Enrico Gargiulo, and Maurizio Artero
37 Home and homemaking practices among skilled Indian migrants 453
Ajay Bailey
38 Polish multiple migrants and their narratives of home and homemaking
over time 466
Aleksandra Winiarska, Justyna Salamońska, Marta Kluszczyńska and Aneta
Krzyworzeka-Jelinowska
39 Home, migration, and Roma people in Europe 481
Stefano Piemontese and Gaja Maestri
40 Why (and how) home matters in the “stay-at-home” order and beyond 493
Tasoulla Hadjiyanni
41 Homemaking and mobilities among LGBT people: an interview with
Andrew Gorman-Murray 507

PART VI METHODS
42 Unveiling the (trans)national in the home space: an auto-ethnography 515
Magdalena Nowicka
43 Narrating home: oral histories as documents and practices of homing 529
Alexander Freund
44 Visual research and participatory research methods 543
Charishma Ratnam
45 Researching home through the narratives of displaced people 554
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia
46 Exploring home and migration through quantitative research: enlarging
scales, unsettling questions 567
Paolo Boccagni, Cristiano Santinello and Bernardo Armanni

PART VII BEYOND THE WEST
47 Between home and accommodation: migration and housing in the Arab
region between circular ideals and diasporic lives 581
Samuli Schielke
48 Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing to
conspicuous construction 595
Julia Pauli
49 Norms and forms of the remittance landscape in Latin America 609
Christien Klaufus
50 House, home, and homemaking in post-Soviet migratory contexts:
insights from research in Russia and Japan 621
Ksenia Golovina, Anna Pechurina, Anna Rocheva, and Evgeni Varshaver
51 Making sense of family and home: multi-generational immigrant
families from China to New Zealand 635
Liangni Sally Liu and Guanyu Jason Ran
52 Remittances and transnational housing among the Indian diaspora:
home as a project 647
S. Irudaya Rajan and Anand P. Cherian
53 Conclusion: on the futures of home and migration 660
Paolo Boccagni

Index