Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home

Murcia, Luis Eduardo Pérez; Boccagni, Paolo

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“…This strand of research thus turns the experience of home into a matter of hom-ing and draws attention to people's lifelong efforts to reach the 'ideal' social conditions, as well as the characteristics, accessibility and achievability of such a home (Boccagni, 2022). (Pérez Murcia & Boccagni, 2022) argue that having such a social understanding of home is crucial when analysing the life trajectories of migrants, as doing so can explain people's attachments to certain environments, relationships and communities across different locations and against the background of their broader life experiences.…”

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“…A growing body of literature recognises that as people grow up and move through their life trajectories, their sense of home may shift in both place and time (Pérez Murcia & Boccagni, 2022). These studies turn the experience of home into a matter of '"hom-ing", or a life-long effort to reach the ideal social condition that generates affect, longing and aspiration' (Boccagni and Kusenback, 2020, 597).…”

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This ethnographic research examines the politics of knowledge within the framework of official development aid (ODA). The study focuses on a queer male sex worker-led organization (SLO) located in Nairobi, Kenya. The primary objective of this research is to explore the ways in which this organization, deeply entrenched in development partnerships within the ODA system, navigate and engage with the intricate politics of knowledge that directly impact them. It does by answering the following central question is: How do SLOs embedded in development partnerships in the ODA system participate in and negotiate the politics of knowledges that affect them? In addition to an in-depth portrayal of the research setting, introducing the organization's staff, members, activities, goals, and the socio-political context it operates within, the introduction chapter explores the theory surrounding the politics of knowledges, and extends this to the context of the ODA system and its implications. Key concepts, such as epistemic injustice and epistemicide, are introduced to illustrate the constraints on incorporating subaltern voices and perspectives within this system. The chapter links these dynamics surrounding politics of knowledges to the enduring structures of colonialism, underlining the resulting hierarchies of race and place. After discussing the methodology, five empirical chapters analyse the politics of knowledges in the ODA system from the perspective of the SLO, as well as how SLOs participate negotiate these and to what end. The empirical chapters analyse the politics of knowledges from five different epistemic relations. The build-up of chapters represents the hierarchical set-up of aid chains that CBOs are part of, and thus discusses the politics of knowledges from the top of the aid chain downwards. More specifically, each chapter explores hegemonic ways of knowing African sex workers and their organisations in a specific domain. Drawing from sex workers’ knowledge paradigms demonstrates how SLOs negotiate and respond to hegemonic ways of knowing and with what effects. The concluding chapter (chapter 8) joins together the different dimensions of the politics of knowledges discussed to show how they function together in keeping the power hierarchies inherent in development partnerships in place. It concludes that the contemporary ODA system, including hierarchies of knowledges fails to take into account certain forms of sex workers’ knowledge, causing epistemic injustice. It proposes that in order to make the politics of knowledges in the ODA system more epistemically just, there is need for methods and modes that can disrupt and explore alternatives to hegemonic accounts of sex workers, that aim at recentring knowledges from the margins that provide an alternative to neoliberal epistemes that maintain institutions and universities as centres of knowledge production, and that provide directions for doing so. While this chapter highlights the need for systemic changes and the potential reimagining of the ODA system to achieve epistemic justice, it also acknowledges that such changes may take time and may not directly benefit sex workers and other marginalized communities involved in development partnerships. Hence, it outlines the future directions policies and practices should take to ensure the inclusive participation of SLOs and CBOs in the ODA system, with less conditionalities. The Epilogue gives a concluding reflection, shedding light on the present challenges queer male sex workers in Nairobi face. It offers a tentative outlook on the future of sex work and sex worker-led organizations in Nairobi and wider Kenya while underscoring the need for alternative ways of working in the ODA system.

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Whose Homes? Approaching the Lived Experience of “Remittance Houses” from Within

Boccagni

Echeverría

2023

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This chapter revisits the emerging literature on so-called remittance houses along conceptual, methodological and self-reflexive lines. Building on our visits and stays in migrant houses in Ecuador over the last fifteen years, we discuss what “entering home(s)” means and what it enables a researcher-as-guest to understand, whenever a house embodies migrants’ efforts to visibly improve their life conditions and prospects in their countries of origin. By comparing visits into five different household and migration arrangements, we discuss questions of hospitality, of (in)visibilization of the absent ones through material culture, and of family and housing obligations being negotiated in a dual – local and transnational – framework. In all these respects, being in makes a critical difference. It also reveals the existence of a fundamental parallel between the life course of migrant families and of their remittance houses. The latter are like a palimpsest to reconstruct the former. Furthermore, our fieldwork opens up to further issues and dilemmas, moving “out” of the houses and “beyond” them. These include the tension between migrant exceptionalism and non-migrant normality and autonomy, as well as the significance of what these houses “do” in any circumstances, to illustrate the promise of further comparative research into transnational housing and migration.

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Conceptualising Home in Migration: An Introduction

Fathi,

Ní Laoire

2024

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This Short Reader presents a pathway through the vast and rich social-scientific literature that exists on home and migration from various perspectives, doing so through an innovative theoretical lens that incorporates the concepts of intersectionality and ‘structural im/possibility’. This introductory chapter firstly outlines some of the key conceptual principles emerging from contemporary social-scientific literature on home and migration, and then goes on to present an intersectional and structural conceptual framework for reading migration-and-home scholarship, centred on the concept of structural im/possibilities of home-in-migration. The final part of the chapter presents some reflections by the authors on their own home-in-migration biographies and provides an overview of the structure of the book.

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Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home

Cited by 8 publications

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Making Noise

Making Noise

Whose Homes? Approaching the Lived Experience of “Remittance Houses” from Within

Conceptualising Home in Migration: An Introduction

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