Remaking a place called home following displacement

Murcia, Luis Eduardo Pérez

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“…Refugees used their physical spaces and the material world around them for sensorial and ornamental rituals associated with hosting, spirituality, and food: incense was burned, special tea and coffee was served in decorative porcelain sets, collective daily prayers took place on ornate mats (Donà, 1995(Donà, , 2015Fábos, 2015). Homes and shelters were rearranged to allow for sharing meals, celebrating holidays, hosting parties and dances, saying goodbyes, and having brief moments of respite from the struggles of daily life (Dudley, 2011;Gabiam, 2021;Gil Everaert, 2021;Koptyaeva, 2017;Mould, 2018;Pérez Murcia, 2020;Rottmann & Nimer, 2021;H. Taylor, 2009;van Liempt & Miellet, 2021).…”

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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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“…Taylor, 2013;Walsh, 2006). 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).…”

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“…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. Taylor, 2015).…”

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

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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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