A new lens on the migration-home nexus
Researching migrants' home
Migration and home over space
Migration and home over time
Migrants' home as a political issue.
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 TrajectoriesA 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 ExperienceNote; 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 MobilizationNotes; 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.
