1st Edition

Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies

Edited By Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła, Amandine Desille Copyright 2026
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies  rethinks how we understand human mobility by placing the sensing, feeling body at the centre of migration research. Challenging decades of scholarship dominated by textual and state-centred perspectives, this volume reveals how people's multisensory experiences, including smell, touch, sound, and taste, shape migrants' journeys and lives as... Read more

1 Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies
Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła and Amandine Desille

2 Mapping Multisensory Migration Research
Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła

3 Somatic Agency and the Sensory Construction of Familiarity Among Ecuadorian Migrants in the Netherlands
Alejandro Miranda-Nieto and Erika Gubrium

4 Feeling Connected Across Borders: Haptic Experiences of Cooking Among Palestinian Women in Britain
Lucy Barkley

5 The Sensory Memory of the Researcher: Retrospective and Critical Reflections on the Role of Senses in Migration Research
Liliana Azevedo

6 Collaborative Filmmaking as a Conveyor of (Migrant) Women’s Embodied Experiences in Portuguese Academia
Amandine Desille, Liliana Azevedo, Ana Estevens, Sara Larrabure and Jennifer McGarrigle

7 Navigating the Sensory Landscape of Migration: Voices from the Belarus-EU Border
Jakub Kościółek and Elżbieta Binczycka-Gacek

8 Drawing Past Displacement in Cabo Delgado: From Cognitive Maps to Durable Solutions
Daniel Missell

9 Multisensory Symbolic Boundaries in a Northern Italian City. Experiences of Exclusion and Strategies of Spatial Agency Among Parma Inhabitants Racialized as Black
Annavittoria Sarli, Kombola T. Ramadhani Mussa and Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau

10 Embodied Experiences in Motion: Integrating the Senses in Research and Teaching
Iepke M. Rijcken, Dženeta Karabegović and Kyoko Shinozaki

11 Kinesthetic Community: Sensing Movement Along Diasporic Food-Ways
Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley

12 Triple Migrations of ‘Cyber Pets’: Embodied Digital Labour and Multisensory Experiences of Rural Live Streamers in Urban China
Meng-Yun He

Biography

Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła is assistant professor at Jagiellonian University and a migration scholar specialising in sensory approaches, cultural heritage, transnational belonging, and visual and sensory methodologies. Her research explores embodied experiences of migration and contributes to innovative, multisensory perspectives in migration and heritage studies.

Amandine Desille is a geographer. Her main research interests are migration governance and place-making, cultural heritage, and visual and sensory methodologies. She mainly works in non-metropolitan areas in the Mediterranean region. She has filmed four films, and is also an active member of non-profit organisations and collectives dedicated to urban and diversity matters through creative participatory work.