PUBLIC LECTURE: Anthropology and Sociology Public Lecture
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All across social sciences and humanities, “home” has
emerged as a unique research topic, despite its inherent
ambiguity, as it bridges a variety of divides - public vs
private, material vs immaterial, descriptive vs prescriptive,
“us” vs “them”. However, under conditions of displacement
and large-scale migration home is no more what it used to
be. From an apparently natural background to people’s lives,
it turns into something to be achieved, or recovered, from
scratch. Struggling for an adequate and ideally better home,
successfully or not, is a process that irremediably parallels
migrant life trajectories. Likewise, retaining some aspects
of all that used to stand for home, while adapting to the
views, emotions and practices associated with home in the
countries of destination, is critical to migrant and refugee
integration over time. Whether for practical purposes or
in a more existential sense, coping with home anew is part
and parcel of the migrant condition. Parallel to that, home
- as a set of emplaced relationships and emotions, not just
a place - is a key analytical tool for researching migrant
trajectories and the attendant social transformations.
Based on an original sociological understanding of home,
and on the European Research Council HOMInG project, this
lecture invites you to appreciate the significance of home for
displaced and migrant people, as an often unaccomplished
experience and as a balancing act between past, present
and future. The methodological implications and the policy
relevance of research on home and migration will also be
discussed, against the backdrop of “homing” as a universal
and often unmet human need.
Paolo Boccagni’s main areas of expertise are international
migration, transnationalism, social welfare, care, diversity
and home. His current research is on home-making and
home-feeling processes, as a critical question for the
everyday negotiation of boundaries between native and
foreign-born populations. As the Principal Investigator of the
European Research Council Starting Grant project HOMInG
and of MIUR (Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e
della Ricerca) HOASI (Home and Asylum Seekers in Italy),
Paolo is leading a team of seven postdoctoral researcher
fellows, doing multi-sited fieldwork on the experience
of home among migrants and refugees in nine different
countries. Based on these large-scale collaborative
projects, Paolo is elaborating on “homing” as a lifelong set
of processes through which individuals and groups try to
make themselves at home. In recent years he has also done
fieldwork on the ways of framing and approaching immigrant
and refugee clients among social workers; on the lived
experience and the sense of home of international students;
on the built environment, material cultures and thresholds of domesticity in refugee reception initiatives.
Please RSVP online via www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/boccagni
Speaker(s) |
Paolo Boccagni
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Location |
Fox Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, UWA
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Contact |
Loretta Baldassar
<[email protected]>
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Start |
Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:00
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End |
Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:00
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Submitted by |
Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:48
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