1st Edition

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

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

This book examines how musical activities shape daily life in reception centres, connecting fragmented experiences, building cross-cultural relationships, maintaining personal identity, and creating transformative moments.   By exploring music-making within the broader sonic and material environments of asylum-seekers' lives—contrasted against the constraints of refugee status and legal... Read more

Acknowledgements, Introduction: An Ethnography of Encounters, 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 an Anthropologist of Music, Sound, and Migration, currently 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).