Thinking Home on the Move: A conversation across disciplines - Hardcover

Boccagni, Dr Paolo; Murcia, Dr Luis Eduardo Pérez; Belloni, Dr Milena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 183909723X ISBN 13: 9781839097232

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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 the HOMInG project. 

Milena Belloni, formerly part of the HOMInG project, is now a FWO Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Antwerp.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 183909723X
• ISBN 13: 9781839097232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184