1st Edition

Encountering and Mobilising Senses of (Non)Belonging Among Asylum Seekers in Greece Refugees Musicking

By Chrysi Kyratsou Copyright 2027
154 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines how musical engagements shape daily life while seeking asylum, connecting fragmented life trajectories, building cross-cultural relationships, maintaining personal identity, and creating transformative moments. By exploring musicking within the broader sonic and material environments of asylum seekers’ lives—contrasted against the constraints of refugee status and legal... Read more

Introduction: an ethnography of encounters and desires to (non)belong  1 Everyday life sounding, regimes of silence crumbling  2 Learning music, teaching music  3 Making music: orchestrating modes of (in)audibility and (in)visibility  4 Listening to, listening with  Epilogue 

Biography

Chrysi Kyratsou is Anthropologist of Music, Sound, and Migration, currently working as a researcher at the University College Dublin School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. She is Affiliate Fellow at the Centre for Creative Ethnography, Queen’s University Belfast. Chrysi’s research explores the concepts of encounters, including, sharing, (non)belonging, and how musicking facilitates them, as well as allows us to get novel insights into them. She recently edited a Roundtable on Voice and Agency (Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 56), co-edited a Special Issue (with Noel Salazar) on Navigating hurdles and reconfiguring (im)mobilities in times of corona (Critique of Anthropology 44:4), and a Thematic Issue (with Alix Sarrouy) on Music Education Among Refugee and Migrant Youths: Sharing, Belonging, Including (Music and Arts in Action 9:1).