Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move among changing social and cultural constraints. Highly conscious of the political strength of their voices, migrants and asylum seekers speak out loud to the authors, as this volume seeks to challenge the narrative that these people are ‘out of place’ or cannot claim their right to belong.

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move among changing social and cultural constraints. Highly conscious of the political strength of their voices, migrants and asylum seekers speak out loud to the authors, as this volume seeks to challenge the narrative that these people are ‘out of place’ or cannot claim their right to belong.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bringing the Migrants’ Voices to the Home and Mobility Nexus
Sara Bonfanti and Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Part I: Searching for Home
Paolo Boccagni

Chapter 1. ‘Moved by the Hand of God’: Lucho, A Peruvian Religious Minister in Manchester
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Chapter 2. One Essential Home (“Ecuador”), Another Existential Home (“With My Mother”), Many Houses In-Between: The Story of Miriam
Paolo Boccagni

Chapter 3. Priya: Homing in the Global Job Market. Life Story of an Indian Woman in the Netherlands
Sara Bonfanti

Part II: Struggles at Home
Sara Bonfanti

Chapter 4. Once We Relax, the Door of Trauma is Open: Aaron’ Life Story
Milena Belloni

Chapter 5. A Story of Accumulated Homelessness. Mateos, an Eritrean Refugee in Rome
Aurora Massa and Milena Belloni

Chapter 6. Yolanda: A Peruvian Care Worker on the Spanish Frontline
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Part III: Tastes of Home
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Chapter 7. Cooking Multiple Homes by Revisiting Eritrean Food in London: The story of Makda
Aurora Massa

Chapter 8. Sumant: The Home Recipe to Make a Move. Life Story of a Sikh Man in Britain
Sara Bonfanti

Chapter 9. Paola: Performing Memory and Reproducing Food Cultures
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Afterword: Home as a Trope of Inequality
Russell King

Index