berghahn New York · Oxford

Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bringing the Migrants’ Voices to the Home and Mobility Nexus
Sara Bonfanti and Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Part I: Searching for Home
Paolo Boccagni

Chapter 1. ‘Moved by the Hand of God’: Lucho, A Peruvian Religious Minister in Manchester
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Chapter 2. One Essential Home (“Ecuador”), Another Existential Home (“With My Mother”), Many Houses In-Between: The Story of Miriam
Paolo Boccagni

Chapter 3. Priya: Homing in the Global Job Market. Life Story of an Indian Woman in the Netherlands
Sara Bonfanti

Part II: Struggles at Home
Sara Bonfanti

Chapter 4. Once We Relax, the Door of Trauma is Open: Aaron’ Life Story
Milena Belloni

Chapter 5. A Story of Accumulated Homelessness. Mateos, an Eritrean Refugee in Rome
Aurora Massa and Milena Belloni

Chapter 6. Yolanda: A Peruvian Care Worker on the Spanish Frontline
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Part III: Tastes of Home
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Chapter 7. Cooking Multiple Homes by Revisiting Eritrean Food in London: The story of Makda
Aurora Massa

Chapter 8. Sumant: The Home Recipe to Make a Move. Life Story of a Sikh Man in Britain
Sara Bonfanti

Chapter 9. Paola: Performing Memory and Reproducing Food Cultures
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Afterword: Home as a Trope of Inequality
Russell King

Index

Finding Home in Europe

Chronicles of Global Migrants

Edited by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara Bonfanti

Afterword by Russell King

256 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-850-8 Hb Published (February 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80073-851-5 eBook

Details

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move among changing social and cultural constraints. Highly conscious of the political strength of their voices, migrants and asylum seekers speak out loud to the authors, as this volume seeks to challenge the narrative that these people are ‘out of place’ or cannot claim their right to belong.

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Manchester. His research interests include home and homemaking; displacement, migration and mobilities; ageing and narrative research. Since 2018 Luis Eduardo has collaborated with the HOMInG Project, University of Trento.

Sara Bonfanti is a migration scholar and gender specialist, with expertise on South Asian diasporas and oral history. She gained a PhD in Social Anthropology as Visiting Fellow at the M.P.I. for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity. Since 2017 she has collaborated within the ERC HOMInG project based at University of Trento.

Series: Volume 13, Worlds in Motion

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

Area: Europe

LC: JV7590 .F54 2023

BISAC: SOC066000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Refugees; SOC007000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Emigration & Immigration; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social