Migration and the search for home : mapping domestic space in migrants' everyday lives /: mapping domestic space in migrants' everyday lives. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paolo Boccagni.
• Authors: Boccagni, Paolo
• Contents: Migration and the Search for Home; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Praise for Migration and the Search for Home; About the Author; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; 1 A New Lens on the Migration-home Nexus; Home as a Question for Social Theory and Research; Conceptual and Definitional Issues: What is Specific of Home?; Through Materiality, and Beyond: Home as a Special Relationship with Place; On the Irremediably Prescriptive Bases of Home; Home as a Lens and a Research Subject for Migration Studies. On the Shifting Place(s) of Home in Migrant Life Trajectories; A Case for the Migration-Home Nexus; Homing: A New Research Agenda on Migrants' Search for Home; Notes; 2 Researching Migrants' Home; Researching into Home: What, Why and How; Researching Migrants' Home(s): the Role of Personal and Biographical Accounts; Researching Migrants' Home(s): Direct Observation and Ways Ahead; Notes; 3 Migration and Home over Space; Is Home Portable? Displacement and Place-Making in the Migrant Experience; Still Immobile: Migrant Houses as Markers of Achievement, or Lack Thereof. On the Boundaries and Scales of Migrants' Home Experience; Note; 4 Migration and Home over Time; For a Time-Sensitive Optic on Migrants' Home Experience; Home as the Beginning and as Embodiment of the Past; On the Biographical Evolution of Migrants' Home Experience: Loss, Retention and Beyond; Homing Between Past, Present and Future: Temporal (Dis)continuities in Migrants' Sense of Home; Notes; 5 Migrants' Home as a Political Issue; Why Home is a Political Question (and Migration Casts Light Upon It); Homeland: The Four Walls of (Natives') Home?; The State as Home? Domopolitics, and Beyond. Home in Migration-Related Mobilization; Notes; 6 Conclusion; Kinds of Home, Kinds of Homing; Homing, from Migrants to the Sedentary and Natives; Towards a New Research Agenda on the Migration-Home Nexus; And then What? The Migration-Home Nexus as a Practically Relevant Matter; Note; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY, U.S.A : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvii, 136 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 304.8; Political science; Immigrants -- Social conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Immigrants -- Social conditions; Social Science -- Emigration & Immigration; Political Science -- Public Policy -- General; Political Science -- Globalization; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Migration, immigration & emigration; Public administration; Globalization; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Comparative politics; Migration; Public policy; Globalization; Ethnography; Political Science -- General; Comparative politics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137588029; 1137588020
• Related ISBNs: 1137588012; 9781137588012
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (115-128) and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2017).
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