Full Description
Home has been used in social sciences as a description, a metaphor and, more recently, as an emergent concept. The goal of this book is to illustrate its analytical power as a lens on the ways in which migrant and displaced people see their life circumstances and attempt to attach a sense of security, familiarity and control over them. Whether as a place or an aspiration towards it, home is a critical entry point into their life histories, experiences and prospects.
Migrants' rights and opportunities to make themselves at home are not just a private concern - rather, they are a major social and political question. This book addresses it through an original theoretical approach and an edited set of interviews with scholars from different national and disciplinary backgrounds. This reflexive conversation unveils the conceptual, methodological and empirical dimensions of researching home on the move and from the margins.
Overall, Thinking Home on the Move is a powerful and in-depth look into what we as humans perceive as 'home' and what this truly means.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction. On doing homing interviews
Chapter 2. Homemaking from the margins: towards a new conversation on home on the move
Chapter 3. Home as a concept: identity, belonging, and beyond
Chapter 4. Transnational migration and diasporas
Chapter 5. Displacement and asylum
Chapter 6. Material culture, infrastructures and the built environment
Chapter 7. Urban and housing studies
Chapter 8. Conclusions. Investigating the home-migration nexus from the margins
