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Migration and Home

IMISCOE Short Reader

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  • This OA book offers an intersectional analysis of home in migration
  • Develops an innovative theorisation of migrant homing
  • Addresses the migration regimes within which migrants live and move
  • This book is available open access and is free to read

Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

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About this book

This open access short reader offers an intersectional perspective on the meaning of home in migration. The book provides a pathway through existing scholarship on home and migration, exploring how intersectional power relations and transnational migration regimes are felt, experienced, lived and navigated by migrants, who are differently positioned, in the making and imagining of home. The meanings associated with home are composed of the interrelation of places, spaces, people, social relations, materialities, emotions and temporalities. These multiple aspects highlight the complexities inherent in the idea of home, which come to the fore particularly when one moves location. Migration and Home explores these issues by focusing on specific key aspects of home in migration: home and gender; home and age; home and materiality; and home and migration status, class and race. It proposes the concept of structural im/possibilities as a framework for understanding the power relations and structures that shape where, when and for whom home in migration is more, or less, possible.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Criminology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Mastoureh Fathi

  • School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Caitríona Ní Laoire

About the authors

Dr Mastoureh Fathi is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Her research revolves around everyday experiences of migration within intersectional framework, identity, home-making and belonging in diaspora and the importance of objects in displacement. Her monograph “Intersectionality, Class and Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women Migrants in the U.K.” was published in 2017.

Dr Caitríona Ní Laoire is Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland and is Cluster Leader of the interdisciplinary Migration & Integration Research Cluster of the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century at UCC. Her research interests coalesce around the themes of migration/diaspora, return mobilities, childhood/youth, intergenerational relations, gender, rurality and the use of qualitative research methods such as life-narrative and children-centred methods. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Migration and Home

  • Book Subtitle: IMISCOE Short Reader

  • Authors: Mastoureh Fathi, Caitríona Ní Laoire

  • Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51315-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51314-5Published: 31 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51315-2Published: 30 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2364-4087

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 108

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Migration, Public Policy, Migration

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