Overview
- Marks an important contribution to the migration-home nexus as an emerging research field both in migration studies and in home studies
- Offers a comprehensive analysis of migrants’ search for home, covering cognitive, affective and practical dimensions
- Provides an original theoretical and methodological toolkit for research on belonging and identification in migrants’ everyday life, at a local and transnational level
- Takes an interdisciplinary perspective by bringing together sociology, anthropology and geography to explore the notion of home, or the search for home, and the meanings around it
Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)
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“In this engaging book, Paolo Boccagni asks about the meaning of home for people who have decided to leave their previous home and settle in a new place. … Boccagni’s book is a great and important read on the migration-home nexus. It will be of high interest to students and scholars alike who work on migration, home and transnationalism.” (Christine Barwick, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, January, 2018)
“Paolo Boccagni introduces a new research agenda by studying migrants' search for home through homing and the migration-home nexus. … Thisbook is an important contribution to complex debates on home, migrant home-making, and homing. The introductory and concluding chapters help to underscore the relationships between place and the construction(s) of home. The book will be valuable to scholars looking to understand and heighten awareness on the home and issues of migrant homes.” (Charishma Ratnam, Emotion, Space and Society, July, 2017)
“Migration and the Search for Home does much to broaden and enrich our understandings of the home-migration nexus. … this book provides a major contribution to research across home and migration studies. The book goes beyond mapping theoretical and empirical approaches to migrant homing, providing a useful methodological and conceptual toolkit that will further develop the home-migration nexus as a research field.” (Annabelle Wilkins, Migration Studies, 2017)
“This book is a must read. It helps us better understand what migration means by looking at migrants’ feelings of home, or their lack thereof ... But the book deserves a wider readership than migration studies since it provides so many new insights in what ‘home’ is about, productively using the angle of migration. Boccagni is not claiming that we have all become migrants or nomads, but the times of stable homes are over for all of us.” (Jan Willem Duyvendak, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
“Paolo Boccagni joins a group of immigration scholars who are intent on developing the prosaic word ‘home’ and the somewhat less prosaic ‘homing’ into serviceable concepts to help us to better understand the complex processes at play for people who are at once emigrants and immigrants as they come to terms with place in multi-scalar terms. The volume constitutes a major contribution to that effort, offering as it does a comprehensive and analytically crisp theoretical argument. This is essential reading.” (Peter Kivisto, Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Welfare, Augustana College, USA)
“Boccagni has given us a much needed sociological compass to draw our attention directly to a topic of such import it is usually hidden from view. In his characteristic writing style – philosophical, poetic, reflective, insightful, and always engaging, he charts a theoretical and methodological course that promises to permanently locate analyses of home on the migration studies map.” (Loretta Baldassar, Professor and Discipline Chair of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia, Australia)
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Book Title: Migration and the Search for Home
Book Subtitle: Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants’ Everyday Lives
Authors: Paolo Boccagni
Series Title: Mobility & Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58802-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58801-2Published: 01 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58802-9Published: 31 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-3867
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3875
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 136
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Politics, Migration, Public Policy, Globalization, Ethnography