Housing and home

E Fravega, P Boccagni - Research Handbook on the Sociology of …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
That 'a house is not a home'is a rather commonsensical way to portray the difference
between the material bases of our day-to-day social reproduction and its emotional …

Diasporic placemaking: the internationalisation of a migrant hometown in post-socialist China

JM Liu - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
International migration profoundly reshapes the urban landscape in sending and receiving
countries. Compared to ethnic enclaves in migrant-receiving metropolises and remittance …

Remittance houses and transnational citizenship: Mapping Eritrea's diaspora–state relationships

M Belloni - Africa Spectrum, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Can diaspora houses be used as a site to explore transnational citizenship? Based on
ethnographic fieldwork in Eritrea, this article shows that different kinds of remittance houses …

Introduction: Theorizing Remittances—Social Positioning and the Making of Migrant Subjectivity

S Meyer - Remittances as social practices and agents of change …, 2023 - Springer
Remittances connect migrants to their homelands, manifest cross-border relations, and
shape the transnational social field. By doing so, they have a transformative effect on both …

[图书][B] The Heritage Corridor: A Transnational Approach to the Heritage of Chinese Migration

D Byrne - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
The Heritage Corridor argues for a transnational approach to investigating and recording
heritage places that emerge from histories of migration. Addressing the material legacy of …

Remittances and social capital: livelihood strategies of Timorese workers participating in the Australian Seasonal Worker Programme

A Wu, J Neilson, J Connell - Third World Quarterly, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Social and financial remittances from the Australian Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP)
have transformed the livelihood capabilities of participating households from Timor-Leste …

Migrants' multifocal sedentarism: Ambivalent belonging and desired recognition in transnational social fields connecting Pakistan and Norway

MB Erdal - Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This article starts from the empirical observation that many migrants lead lives characterized
by sedentarism, not mobility, within transnational social fields. Migrant belonging is often …

[HTML][HTML] Developing a segregated homeland: How internal displacement in a remittance-receiving region affects transnational migrants' development practices

S Verstappen - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
This article contributes to research on migration and development, in particular to the studies
that seek to move beyond ahistorical approaches and those that seek to explore the long …

Dreaming of a remittance house: Understanding transnational housing aspirations

C Vargas-Silva, P Boccagni - International Migration Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Migrant housing investments in the countries of origin are a demonstration of their
transnational engagement and their potential contribution to local development. Yet, these …

Two houses, one family, and the battlefield of home: A housing story of home unmaking in rural Punjab

B Bertolani, P Boccagni - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
This article investigates the lived experience of a family house as a battlefield between
contrasting views, emotions, cultures and practices of home. It aims to make sense of the …