This open access short reader offers an intersectional perspective on the meaning of home in migration. The book provides a pathway through existing scholarship on home and migration, exploring how intersectional power relations and transnational migration regimes are felt, experienced, lived and navigated by migrants, who are differently positioned, in the making and imagining of home. The meanings associated with home are composed of the interrelation of places, spaces, people, social relations, materialities, emotions and temporalities. These multiple aspects highlight the complexities inherent in the idea of home, which come to the fore particularly when one moves location. Migration and Home explores these issues by focusing on specific key aspects of home in migration: home and gender; home and age; home and materiality; and home and migration status, class and race. It proposes the concept of structural im/possibilities as a framework for understanding the power relations and structures that shape where, when and for whom home in migration is more, or less, possible.
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- Title
- Migration and Home
- Subtitle
- IMISCOE Short Reader
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author(s)
- Caitríona Ní Laoire, Mastoureh Fathi
- Published
- 2024-01-31
- Edition
- 1
- Format
- eBook (pdf, epub, mobi)
- Pages
- 115
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 3031513142
- ISBN-13
- 9783031513152
- License
- CC BY
- Book Homepage
- Free eBook, Errata, Code, Solutions, etc.
Contents Chapter 1: Conceptualising Home in Migration: An Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Key Tenets of Home in Migration 1.3 Structural Im/Possibilities: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Home in Migration 1.3.1 Intersectionality, Identity and Home 1.3.2 Migration/Citizenship Regimes and Bordering 1.3.3 Home as Intersectional and Bordered 1.4 Positionality, Reflexivity and Our Homes-in-Migration Biographies 1.5 Overview of the Book References Chapter 2: Gender and Home in Migration 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Feminist Thinking on Home 2.3 Women’s Mobilities and Home/Land 2.4 Spatial Boundaries and Gender in Migration 2.5 Migrant Women, Home-Making and the Domestic Sphere 2.6 Changing Gender Relations and Masculinities in Migrant Home-Making 2.7 Gender and Future Homes in Migration 2.8 Conclusion References Chapter 3: Age and Home in Migration 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Conceptualising Age, Generation and Life-Course 3.3 Ageing and Home in Migration 3.3.1 Temporality and Home-Making Among Older Migrants 3.3.2 Deepening Home Roots in Place Among Older Migrants 3.3.3 Transnational Home and Older Migrants 3.3.4 Attachments to ‘Homeland’ in Older Age 3.3.5 Summary: Structural and Intersectional Im/Possibilities of Home for Older Migrants 3.4 Home, Migration and Young Adulthood 3.4.1 Youth, Mobility and Home 3.4.2 Young Adulthood and ‘Leaving Home’ 3.4.3 Young Migrants and Home in Mobility 3.4.4 Summary 3.5 Childhood, Migration and Home 3.5.1 Children and Home-Making in Migration: Agency and the Everyday 3.5.2 Multi-scalarity and the Politics of Home in Migrant Childhoods 3.5.3 Summary 3.6 Conclusions References Chapter 4: Materialities of Home in Migration 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Importance of Objects in Migrants’ Lives 4.3 Objects, Memories and Nostalgia 4.4 Instrumentality and Everyday Life 4.5 Objects and Social Identity 4.6 Conclusion References Chapter 5: Migration Status, Class, Race and Home 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Privilege and Home in Migration 5.2.1 Feeling at Home in the Host Society as Privilege 5.2.2 Temporary/Mobile Home in Privileged Migration 5.2.3 Privileged Migration and Homeland 5.2.4 Summary 5.3 Precarity and Home 5.3.1 Refugee Accommodation and the Structural Impossibilities of Home 5.3.2 Protracted Displacement and Precarity 5.3.3 Intersectionality, Selectivity and Everyday Bordering of Home 5.3.4 Making Home in Displacement and Precarity 5.3.5 Summary 5.4 Conclusion References Chapter 6: Conclusion 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Home in Migration at a Glance Reference
