This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement. It explores how homes are made, remade, lost, revived, expanded and contracted through experiences of migration, to ask what it means to make a home away from home. We draw together a wide range of perspectives from across multiple disciplines and contexts, which explore how old homes, lost homes, and new homes connect and disconnect through processes of homemaking. The volume asks: how do spaces of resettlement or rehoming reflect both the continuation of old homes and distinct new experiences?
Based on collaborations with migrants, refugees, practitioners and artists, this book centres the lived experiences, testimonies, and negotiations of those who are displaced. The volume generates appreciation of the tensions that emerge in contexts of migration and displacement, as well as of the ways in which racial categories and colonial legacies continue to shape fields of lived experience.
Author(s): Yasmine Shamma, Suzan Ilcan, Vicki Squire, Helen Underhill
Series: Politics of Citizenship and Migration
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 213
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Making Home Away: Introduction to the Collection
Remaking Home Through Displacement
Thematic Resonances
Chapter Contributions
References
Chapter 2: Watfa’ Speaks
Contextualizing a Shared History
Mass Influx and Asylum in the Ottoman Empire
Deterritorialized Belonging and Social Duty of Hospitality
Interviewing Watfa’
Watfa’ Remembers Damascus
Conclusion: Pursuing Home
References
Chapter 3: Refugee-Refugee Hosting as Home in Protracted Urban Displacement: Sudanese Refugee Men in Amman, Jordan
Introduction
Refugee Hosting as an Act of Care
Context
Care and Home in Displacement
Living in Hosting Relationships
Exchanges and Ambivalences of Care in Refugee-Refugee Hosting
Being and Feeling at Home
Place Belonging
Politics of Belonging
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Archiving Displacement and Identities: Recording Struggles of the Displaced Re/making Home in Britain
Introduction
Recording Life Histories Through Civic Engagement in the Archive: Methods and Methodology
Archiving “moving memories” of Home to the Displaced
Remembering “Home”: Which Home?
The Displaced and “Crisis of Reception”
London as a Complex Home: Identities of Sudanese, Syrian, and Moroccan Displaced Men
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Archival Home Making: Reference, Remixing and Reverence in Palestinian Visual Art
Introduction
The Archive, Art, and Home
Reclaiming Home: Archival Sensibilities in Contemporary Visual Art from Palestine
The Art Competition and the Archive as Theme
The Exhibition: Process, Practicality, and Materiality
Archival Art and the Intergenerational Relations of Home Making
Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter 6: Collecting: The Migrant’s Method for Home-Making
The Migrant
The Migrant at Home
The Symbolics of Home
The Language of Home
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Syrian Experiences of Remaking Home: Migratory Journeys, State Refugee Policies, and Negotiated Belonging
Introduction
Remaking Home in Displacement and Resettlement
Migratory Journeys and Displacement
UN Resettlement
State Policies for Resettled Refugees
The UK
Canada
Experiences of Loss and Belonging in Remaking Home
Spatial and Temporal Experiences of Loss
The Labour of Homemaking
Cultural and Linguistic Barriers
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Making Home in the Earth: Ecoglobalism in the Camps
Tending “This Plot of Land”
Ecopoetics in Action
Flowering: Past into Present
Watering the Garden
References
Chapter 9: Home Is Like Water: Nigerians in the Migration Pathway to the UK
Stories Matter
Tidal Perspectives
Imagined Geographies
Oceanic Talismans of Home
Weathering Storms at Sea
Conclusion: Home Is Like Water
References
Index
