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Migration and the Search for Home |
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Series Editors’ Foreword |
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Acknowledgements |
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Praise for Migration and the Search for Home |
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About the Author |
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Contents |
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List of Figures |
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List of Tables |
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Introduction |
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1 A New Lens on the Migration-home Nexus |
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Home as a Question for Social Theory and Research |
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Conceptual and Definitional Issues: What is Specific of Home? |
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Through Materiality, and Beyond: Home as a Special Relationship with Place |
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On the Irremediably Prescriptive Bases of Home |
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Home as a Lens and a Research Subject for Migration Studies |
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On the Shifting Place(s) of Home in Migrant Life Trajectories |
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A Case for the Migration-Home Nexus |
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Homing: A New Research Agenda on Migrants’ Search for Home |
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Notes |
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2 Researching Migrants’ Home |
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Researching into Home: What, Why and How |
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Researching Migrants’ Home(s): the Role of Personal and Biographical Accounts |
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Researching Migrants’ Home(s): Direct Observation and Ways Ahead |
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Notes |
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3 Migration and Home over Space |
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Is Home Portable? Displacement and Place-Making in the Migrant Experience |
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Still Immobile: Migrant Houses as Markers of Achievement, or Lack Thereof |
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On the Boundaries and Scales of Migrants’ Home Experience |
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Note |
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4 Migration and Home over Time |
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For a Time-Sensitive Optic on Migrants’ Home Experience |
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Home as the Beginning and as Embodiment of the Past |
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On the Biographical Evolution of Migrants’ Home Experience: Loss, Retention and Beyond |
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Homing Between Past, Present and Future: Temporal (Dis)continuities in Migrants’ Sense of Home |
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Notes |
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5 Migrants’ Home as a Political Issue |
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Why Home is a Political Question (and Migration Casts Light Upon It) |
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Homeland: The Four Walls of (Natives’) Home? |
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The State as Home? Domopolitics, and Beyond |
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Home in Migration-Related Mobilization |
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Notes |
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6 Conclusion |
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Kinds of Home, Kinds of Homing |
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Homing, from Migrants to the Sedentary and Natives |
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Towards a New Research Agenda on the Migration-Home Nexus |
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And then What? The Migration-Home Nexus as a Practically Relevant Matter |
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Note |
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References |
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Index |
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