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A Material Culture Ethnography of Home-Making in Asylum Reception: Crafting Refuge

A Material Culture Ethnography of Home-Making in Asylum Reception: Crafting Refuge

Yi-Neumann, Friedemann

Hardcover

Series: Global Diversities

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 3031849701
ISBN13: 9783031849701
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 9 2025
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores what it takes to create a sense of home while in exile, drawing on ethnographic research conducted in German asylum reception facilities from 2016-2020. From a material culture perspective, it examines how asylum seekers and migrants with precarious legal status 'translate' aspects of home into challenging environments. Through these translations--processual shifts of objects, habits, and ideas across borders--migrants work to reassemble a sense of belonging. The book delves into the material, social, and individual efforts involved in this homing process, while highlighting the ongoing impact of dispossession and loss. By focusing on personal attachments to objects and the broader context of migration, this work offers a unique perspective on forced migration, home cultures, and the quest for ontological security. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and human geography as well as other research interested in ethnographic perspectives on the respective topics.

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