This open access book provides insight into the domestic space of people with an immigrant or
refugee background. It selects and compares a whole spectrum of dwelling conditions with
ethnographic material covering a variety of national backgrounds - Latin America North and
West Africa Eastern Europe South Asia - and an equally broad range of housing household and
legal arrangements. It provides a fine-grained understanding of migrants' lived experience of
their domestic space and shows the critical significance of the lived space of a house as a
microcosm of societal constellations of identities values and inequalities. The book enhances
the connection between migration studies and research into housing social reproduction
domesticity and material culture and provides an interesting read to scholars in migration
studies policy makers and practitioners with a remit in local housing and integration
policies. This wonderful edited collection extends our understanding of migration not only into
the confines of the domestic space but also into the territory of the ethnographer. What does
it mean to be a guest in a migrant home? This collection of chapters traverses this question in
diverse settings and circumstances of homemaking [...]. Boccagni and Bonfanti have skilfully
created an intricate lace of ethnographic accounts that provides a nuanced understanding of the
built environments where migrants live how they relate to their homes and how this is
articulated in their attitudes toward majority society. The chapters each on its own and
together as a collection advance our understanding of the researcher being a guest in the
migrant home just like the migrant being a guest in the host country. This complexity of
ethnography and positionality makes this edited book an essential reading for migration
scholars and ethnographers alike! Iris Levin Lecturer in Urban Studies RMIT University
Melbourne Australia This book demonstrates how ethnographies of home and dwelling can bear on
the study of migration and its manifestation in domestic space. Entering someone's home as a
researcher challenges our ethical registers: the researcher moves between being a stranger and
a guest. The authors point to the dilemmas researchers encounter in intimate settings and how
they might be resolved. A valuable and timely book for researchers on dwelling home and
movement. Cathrine Brun Professor of Human Geography Centre for Lebanese Studies Oxford UK
This excellent collection delves into the relationship between migration domesticity and
material culture. It is ethnographically rich and impressively varied in its geographical scope
with insights that will prove extremely useful to scholars and practitioners alike. The great
strength of the volume lies in the fascinating diversity granular detail and methodological
care of the contributions with authors deploying concepts and arguments that prepare a great
deal of fertile ground for future work. Tom Scott-Smith Associate Professor of Refugee Studies
and Forced Migration University of Oxford This insightful collection departs from the simple
yet significant question of roles: What happens when the researcher participant relationship
becomes guest host instead? By seeing and interpreting domestic spaces as ethnographic field
sites the contributions shed light on refugees' and other migrants' lived experiences of home
and housing. Drawing on empirical evidence from diverse types of homes across geographic
locations Migration and domestic space: Ethnographies of home in the making offers valuable
and fresh perspective encouraging new connections between material and emotional public and
private in migration research.Marta Bivand Erdal Rese
