The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home?

Massa, Aurora; Boccagni, Paolo

doi:10.3167/ajec.2021.300102

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“…However, feeling at home, or not, in a superdiverse public space is revealing of a whole range of social questions. An example from the fieldwork of HOMInG (the Home-Migration Nexus ERC project) on the experience of home in multi ethnic neighborhoods can be of help here (Massa and Boccagni 2021).…”

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Homemaking in Superdiverse Public Space

Boccagni

2022

The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity

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This chapter invites a systematic exploration of the interplay between superdiversity and homemaking in the public urban space. The notion of home, as a form of special place attachment, also involves the public sphere and lies at the root of contrasting ways of perceiving, claiming, and using public sphere. Drawing on a literature review and original research on home and migration, this chapter discusses the factors whereby different social actors and groups have unequal rights and opportunities to make themselves at home in public regions, such as streets, parks, amenity infrastructures, or entire cities. In the lived experience of the public space, different social actors and groups claim or at least perceive certain portions of it as their home, where they hold a higher or even exclusive right to stay, be in control, and belong. Such processes tend to go unnoticed as long as they involve the ethnic and long-resident mainstream, but they become more visible and contentious when there is no self-evident majority group—no group that, by habituation if not by legal entitlement, is in a stronger position to call a certain place home. Overall, a critical emphasis on home(making) in the public scales “up” the metaphor of home to capture competing views of superdiverse public spaces and of the appropriate ways to use them. This raises substantive issues on the access, use, recognition, and even ownership of the public.

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Homemaking in Superdiverse Public Space

Boccagni

2022

The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity

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“…‘They always see you like a guest – as if you don’t belong here’, said Ahmed, a Sweden-born young man of Somali descent. ‘How on earth could I feel home here?’ (Massa and Boccagni, 2021).…”

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Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration

Harney

Boccagni

2022

Anthropological Theory

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Hospitality, as an analytic and a lived experience, is central to the day-to-day workings of home, and to managing the tensions and contradictions inherent in place attachment and appropriation on any scale – from the domestic to the national one. This emerges as a contentious and yet under-researched social question whenever newcomers such as immigrants and refugees lay some claim for guesthood. Following this premise, and based also on our fieldwork, this article outlines a conceptual argument for a joint understanding of home and hospitality in time and space. This leads us to conceptualize ‘calibrated hospitality’ to appreciate the ongoing dialectic between the spatial, temporal, and relational dimensions of the host–guest encounter in immigrant- and refugee-receiving societies. Looking at immigrant and refugee inclusion in terms of hospitality being claimed, negotiated, and possibly denied, relative to the theories and practices of ‘home’, opens an extensive conceptual terrain for social research that is more connected to foundational lived cultural idioms, and contextually more sensitive, than approaches based only on policy frames such as integration, or on formal entitlements such as access or residence rights.

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Looking for Homes in Migrants’ Informal Settlements: A Case Study from Italy

Fravega

2023

IMISCOE Research Series

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This chapter offers an overview of migrants’ home experience in informal settlements. Focusing on the case of an agro-industrial district in Southern Italy, and based on my ethnographic fieldwork, I first discuss the relevance of labour exploitation in shaping the emergence, localization and spreading of informal settlements in the Italian ruralscape, including the associated housing and homemaking practices. I then show how migrants’ home in informal settlements spreads out of the perimeter of dwelling and is deeply shaped by their broader social and relational experience. The chapter eventually stresses the importance of research on migrant homemaking practices in informal settlements. This points to the significance of aspects such as the blurring and entanglement of boundaries between public and private spheres; the deep influence of interpersonal relationships in shaping one’s domestic space; the social construction of housing and homemaking as the result of migrants’ autonomy combined with the social constraints and the forms of exploitation they are embedded in.

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The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home?

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

Homemaking in Superdiverse Public Space

Homemaking in Superdiverse Public Space

Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration

Looking for Homes in Migrants’ Informal Settlements: A Case Study from Italy

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