Paolo Boccagni 
Migration and the Search for Home [PDF ebook] 
Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants’ Everyday Lives

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction .- 1. A new lens on the migration-home nexus .- 2. Researching migrants’ home .- 3. Migration and home over space .- 4. Migration and home over time .- 5. Migrants’ home as a political issue .- 6. Conclusion.  

Über den Autor

Paolo Boccagni is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy. His main research areas are transnational migration, social welfare, care, diversity and home, and his publication record includes articles in
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Global Networks,
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and 
Housing, Theory and Society. He is also Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project HOMIn G – The home-migration nexus: Home as a window on migrant belonging, integration and circulation (ERC STG 678456, 2016-2021).