Homemaking in the public. On the scales and stakes of framing, feeling, and claiming extra‐domestic space as “home”

P Boccagni, JW Duyvendak - Sociology Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews the emerging literature on the negotiation of home‐related feelings,
claims, and practices in the public urban sphere, under the rubric of homemaking in the …

Homing: a category for research on space appropriation and 'home-oriented'mobilities

P Boccagni - Mobilities, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article is a conceptual invitation to homing, to revisit the everyday social experience of
home as a situated manifestation of lifelong needs and desires for space appropriation …

For a comparative sociology of home: Relationships, cultures, structures

P Boccagni, M Kusenbach - Current Sociology, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Home matters, for people's everyday life and for social research, in ways that are still lacking
a systematic sociological framework of analysis. As a contribution toward this framework, we …

Integration and the struggle to turn space into “our” place: Homemaking as a way beyond the stalemate of assimilationism vs transnationalism

P Boccagni, P Hondagneu‐Sotelo - International Migration, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates homemaking as a set of practices and a perspective on migrants'
ways of local incorporation, with its own material, emotional and relational underpinnings …

Home in question: Uncovering meanings, desires and dilemmas of non-home

P Boccagni, A Miranda Nieto - European Journal of Cultural …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
What is the opposite of home? Is it necessarily something 'negative'? Similar questions, far
from having a self-evident answer, make for a fruitful entry point for research into the social …

Feeling at home across time and place: A study of Ecuadorians in three European cities

P Boccagni, C Vargas‐Silva - Population, Space and Place, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
International migration creates significant dilemmas for people to feel at home or not and a
meaningful field to investigate this emotional experience. Using a cross‐country survey of …

Accumulated homelessness: Analysing protracted displacement along Eritreans' life histories

M Belloni, A Massa - Journal of Refugee Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article introduces the notion of 'accumulated homelessness' to account for the repeated
loss and lack of home experienced by many migrants in Europe today. Through the lens of …

“All we need is a home”: Eviction, vulnerability, and the struggle for a home by migrants from the Horn of Africa in Rome

A Massa - Focaal, 2022 - berghahnjournals.com
This article retraces the aftermath of the eviction of a squatted building that took place in
Rome (2017). It draws on ethnography among Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants, analyzing …

At home in the gurdwara? Religious space and the resonance with domesticity in a London suburb

B Bertolani, S Bonfanti, P Boccagni - Religion, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT 'Home', as a special place and a set of practices that separate it from the rest,
may 'scale up'to the public sphere, particularly among immigrant and religious minorities …

Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration

NDM Harney, P Boccagni - Anthropological Theory, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …