Migration and the Search for Home

by Paolo Boccagni

2020-07-02 22:54:35

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life, yet migrants’ experience tells a different st... Read more

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life, yet migrants’ experience tells a different story: what happens to the notion of home, once migrants move far away from their “natural” bases and search for new ones, often under marginalized living conditions? The author analyzes in how far migrants’ sense of home relies on a dwelling place, intimate relationships, memories of the past, and aspirations for the future–and what difference these factors make in practice. Analyzing their claims, conflicts, and dilemmas, this book showcases how in the migrants’ case, the sense of home turns from an apparently intimate and domestic concern into a major public question.

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Publication date November 3, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBNefb83c94-2008-4889-a117-e4d46476436a
Paolo Boccagni is Professor in Sociology, University of Trento, and Principal Investigator of ERC-StG HOMInG – the home-migration nexus. Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in ...

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