Call for papers! "African ways of dwelling in Europe: a conversation across housing pathways and home cultures". #CFP @satoumbodj homing.soc.unitn.it/2024/11/07/cfp…

#CFP: DOMESTIC ETHNOGRAPHY IN MARGINALISED AND SHARED DWELLING SPACES: RELATIONSHIPS, DILEMMAS, AND THE MICRO-MACRO LINK ('ETHNOGRAPHY & QUALITATIVE RESEARCH' CONFERENCE, TRENTO, JULY 2025). Deadline for online paper submission: 20 January 2025. homing.soc.unitn.it/2024/11/28/cfp…

We are deeply saddened to learn of Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s death. Thomas was a brilliant and hugely influential anthropologist and public intellectual. He was also a close associate and dear friend of ours and he will be sorely missed.

Acompáñanos en este seminario donde reflexionaremos sobre el impacto y los aportes de los estudios migratorios en el país. Analizaremos los retos y logros en un tema clave para nuestra sociedad. 🗓 9 y 10 de diciembre de 2024 🌐 Más información y agenda: bit.ly/3B0RegV

P. Boccagni: "La migración a través de las casas: una mirada etnográfica al caso ecuatoriano". Herramientas conceptuales, ejemplos de campo y relatos de vida. FLACSO Ecuador Gioconda Herrera Mosquera homing.soc.unitn.it/2024/12/04/omi…

Mañana, a las 08h30 en FLACSO Ecuador inicia el seminario. Presentaremos una visión sobre los estudios migratorios en el país, exploraremos las agencias y desafíos del refugio, y analizaremos las políticas migratorias globales y nacionales, así como los tránsitos y fronteras.

P. Boccagni UGent: "From home to homing, & back to house: revisiting a decade of research into home & migration" homing.soc.unitn.it/2024/12/13/hom…

Four more days to apply!!!

CfP on Ethnographies of home and housing at ERQ Conference Università di Trento , Session 3, July 2024: six days left! #dwelling #sharedhomes #housing #ethnography erq-conference.soc.unitn.it/2024/10/23/3-d…

Death upon border crossing involves moral & political obligations to the missing, but also demands care about the living, including border crossers who survived & are now trapped in the "waithood" of asylum. IASFM Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/01/15/hom…

How can the burgeoning repertoire of 'home studies' elucidate the lived experience of migration and displacement, and how is it mediated through the views, emotions and practices of (im)mobile people themselves? homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/02/10/hom…

Home & belonging have to do with the place we have, or aspire to have, in the world; with the characteristics of such a place, and the degrees of freedom in negotiating them; with the attendant dynamics of attachment & appropriation, inclusion & exclusion. homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/02/24/p-b…

A refugee room offers little of an external view, however, it provides a unique internal window into its occupant’s everyday life experience, practices, and future prospects. homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/04/07/hom…

What is the “tense” of return migration, as a life project and an actual experience? homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/05/05/hom…

"Home" is a temporally shaped, open-ended social process, most visibly among people and groups with a background of frequent mobility, forced displacement, or transnational migration. homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/05/14/hom…

#twitterguest Maurizio Ambrosini consiglia: Paolo Boccagni, «Vite ferme». Tra i rifugiati nel limbo dell’attesa, tra frustrazioni, sogni e speranze

homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/06/26/hom… If the burial place is home, the very act of body disposal has to do with homecoming, if the last site overlaps with the country of origin; or with homemaking, if a new location is found elsewhere, to be made “home-like” by the grieving practice. IMISCOE

What does "doing nothing" mean for young people like asylum seekers in "waithood"? homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/07/07/und…

Within the final workshop of the PRIN WELL-MIG project, Paolo Boccagni will give an invited lecture on “Beyond the here-now: Interrogating the temporal, spatial and relational scales of well-being in migration“. homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/09/08/hom…

Former Hominger Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia has just published A long journey home, a major contribution to the study of home, and to the quest and the struggle for it, after forced displacement. homing.soc.unitn.it/2025/09/15/new…