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Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs book cover

1st Edition

Ethnographies of Home and Mobility Shifting Roofs

By Alejandro Miranda Nieto, Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti Copyright 2020
194 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge
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This book lays out a framework for understanding connections between home and mobility, and situates this within a multidisciplinary field of social research. The authors show how the idea of home offers a privileged entry point into forced migration, diversity and inequality. Using original fieldwork, they adopt an encompassing lens on labour, family and refugee flows, with cases of migrants... Read more
Foreword: Mainstreaming the study of home and migration  Introduction: Unlocking doors  1. Scales  2. (Im)materiality  3. Mobility and immobility  4. Temporalities  5. Diversities  6. Inequalities  Conclusion: Dwelling between mobility and stasis  Afterword  Index

Biography

Alejandro Miranda Nieto is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Trento in Italy.

Aurora Massa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Trento in Italy.

Sara Bonfanti is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Trento in Italy.

"At last, a contribution to migration scholarship that cuts across typologies of migrants, to reach a deep understanding of the sense of home as a matter of practice. Developing an innovative theoretical approach related to migration and mobility, this book is an excellent example of the role of ethnographic fieldwork in overcoming a static understanding of home and providing complex insights into processual, shifting dimensions of spatiotemporal arrangements that shape domestic lives."  – Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Malmö University, Sweden

"This theoretically oriented empirical study contributes outstandingly to the social anthropology of migration. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." - D. A. Chekki in CHOICE

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