Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs Contributor(s): Miranda Nieto, Alejandro (Author), Massa, Aurora (Author), Bonfanti, Sara (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350084255 ISBN-13: 9781350084254 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
Series: Home |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 184 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 from Latin America, Africa and the Indian subcontinent. With the book structured around these key topics, the authors look at how practices of home and mobility emerge along with emotions and manifold social processes. In doing so, their scope shifts from the household to streets, neighbourhoods, cities and even nations. Yet, the meaning of 'home' as a lived experience goes beyond place; the authors analyse literature on migration and mobility to reveal how the past and future are equally projected into imaginings of home. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cox, Rosie: - Rosie Cox is Senior Lecturer in London Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of The Servant Problem: Paid Domestic Work in a Global Economy. Buchli, Victor: - Victor Buchli is Reader in Material Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK, and Editor of Home Cultures. |