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Beeckmans, Luce; Singh, Ashika; Gola, Alessandra

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“…In fact, what these 'empty' spaces (Fathi, 2023) show is displacement more than home (Van Liempt, 2023). Beeckmans et al (2022) in a recent edited collection, identify four types of socio-spatial contexts for home in displacement -camp, shelter, city and house. They show that the ways in which camps and shelters, as institutionalised forms of housing, are regulated by states means that they prove to be ineffective in giving a sense of home.…”

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Migration Status, Class, Race and Home

Fathi,

Ní Laoire

2024

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Migration regimes are powerful forces that allow or deny individuals, in different ways, the possibilities of feeling at home, imagining home or doing home. This chapter draws on existing literature to show how migrant status, class and race intersect not only with each other but with gender, age, and other power relations in structuring these im/possibilities through bordering processes linked to global geopolitical and postcolonial processes. Firstly, the chapter explores how privileged migrant groups can draw on their available capital to reproduce comfortable notions of home in migration, and how different migration/citizenship regimes enable this. Secondly, the focus is brought to the phenomenon of enforcement, precarity and stuckness in migration, as a lens through which to explore how migrant status, class and race limit the possibilities of feeling at home for other migrant groups and how they navigate these limitations and borders in seeking to find and make home in the world.

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Migration Status, Class, Race and Home

Fathi,

Ní Laoire

2024

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“…Importantly, homemaking from below operates in critical interaction with the infrastructural characteristics of the built environment and with the ways in which it is designed, maintained and managed over time. It is no coincidence that the study of refugee accommodations "from below" has been paralleled with a burgeoning debate in architecture, urban planning and design on the ways to improve refugee housing, both functionally and aesthetically, for different resident targets and purposes (Kuhl & Behrens, 2018;Willems et al, 2020;Beeckmans et al, 2022;Seethaler-Wari et al, 2022). This perspective, of course, is not without constraints and dilemmas, particularly for dwelling in refugee camps and shelters (Scott-Smith, 2019).…”

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Rooms with Little View: Reluctant Homemaking and the Negotiation of Space in an Asylum Centre

Boccagni

2023

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Reception centres for asylum seekers, and “camps” more broadly, are a subject of increasing interest in refugee, housing and border studies. Only a fraction of this literature, however, draws on proper ethnographic fieldwork within these infrastructures. A case in point is a recent study I have conducted in an asylum centre in northern Italy. My research focus was on the lived experience of the built environment and on the spatial and temporal boundary-making among residents, and between the latter and service providers. Within rooms and shared kitchens that operate as proxies of a domestic space, people do not simply “wait”. They engage in forms of space appropriation (and to a lesser extent, attachment) that illustrate the significance of homemaking in temporary and unhomely settings. Moreover, the social and material inner space of an asylum centre is far from homogeneous. Against accounts of undifferentiated ghettos or non-places, the chapter illustrates the thresholds and layers of domesticity that refugees as guests negotiate, and that an ethnographer as their guest can capture. Without dismissing the attendant dilemmas, I show the contribution of a “being in” approach to co-produce knowledge on inner domestic routines and cultures, on the ways to (re)present oneself, on the traces of past dwelling. A refugee room gives little of an external view, as long as someone gets stuck in. Yet, it provides a uniquely internal view on their everyday life experience and prospects.

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“…This imagery and language proliferate throughout policy and research. Displacement is viewed as a condition solely associated with loss, suffering, and anonymity (Beeckmans et al, 2022;Katz, 2022;Malkki, 1995;Marshall, 2013). The very label of being a refugee "implies a dependent role … [and] usually renders refugees powerless" (Korac, 2003, p. 409).…”

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“…Taylor, 2013). Its study is multidimensional (Mallett, 2004): it is material, spatial, temporal, and relational (Beeckmans et al, 2022;Boccagni, 2022b;Donà, 2015;Fábos, 2015;Massey, 1994;Pérez Murcia, 2020;Pérez Murcia & Boccagni, 2022;Ryan-Saha, 2015;H. Taylor, 2013;Walsh, 2006).…”

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“…For refugees, homemaking entails a losing and remaking in each of these different dimensions (Hammond, 2004;Korac, 2009;Pérez Murcia, 2020). Beyond the personal level, homemaking can be political (Beeckmans et al, 2022;Benson, 2022;Brun & Lund, 2008;Katz, 2022) and, for migrants specifically, transnational (Beeckmans et al, 2022, p. 15;Koptyaeva, 2017;Trapp, 2015;Walsh, 2006). Increasingly, "home" is more practice than place, more verb than noun (Boccagni, 2022b;Hammond, 2004;Pérez Murcia, 2020;S.…”

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Beauty and Beautification in Refugees’ Lives and Their Implications for Refugee Policy

Acker

2023

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This article seeks to understand the significance of everyday beauty in refugees’ lives and its implications for refugee policy; it is one of the first pieces of scholarship to explore this subject in this context. A review of the existing literature on beauty in refugee contexts followed by a deductive analysis of the literature on refugee homemaking demonstrates how beauty and beautification play an active role in how refugees (re)make home, even in temporary situations. Beauty is used to build hope, celebrate culture, create community, and honour past and present realities, and therefore has significant implications for the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees. The role of beauty in refugee homemaking suggests challenging the narrow focus on durable solutions to a more holistic framework, transforming language and policy approaches to include refugees as decision-makers, and investing in the quality of shelters, camps, and homes as a more effective way to reduce pressure on host countries.

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Migration Status, Class, Race and Home

Rooms with Little View: Reluctant Homemaking and the Negotiation of Space in an Asylum Centre

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