Travelling towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking (Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings Book 3)

As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese industrial cities, Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine, and young gay South Asians in London. While negotiating widely varying social-political contexts, these studies suggest an unavoidably multiple understanding of home, while provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself "at home.".. Introduction : home and homemaking in a time of crisis / Tom Selwyn and Nicola Frost -- Homing desires : queer young Asian men in London / Chand Starin Basi and Kaveri Qureshi -- Homeawayness and life-project building : homemaking among rural-urban migrants in China / Shuhua Chen -- Between a home and a homeland : experiences of Jewish return migrants in Ukraine / Marina Sapritsky -- Who makes 'Old England' home? : tourism and migration in the English countryside / Yuko Shioji -- Modalities of space, time, and voice in Palestinian hip-hop narratives / Ilana Webster-Kogan -- My Maluku manise : managing desire and despair in the diaspora / Nicola Frost -- Anecdotes of movement and belonging : intertwining strands of the rofessional and the personal / Colin Murray -- Postlude / Tom Selwyn Contents Illustrations Introduction: Home and Homemaking in a Time of Crisis CHAPTER 1 Homing Desires: Queer Young Asian Men in London CHAPTER 2 Homeawayness and Life-Project Building: Homemaking among Rural-Urban Migrants in China CHAPTER 3 Between a Home and a Homeland: Experiences of Jewish Return Migrants in Ukraine CHAPTER 4 Who Makes ‘Old England’ Home? Tourism and Migration in the English Countryside CHAPTER 5 Modalities of Space, Time and Voice in Palestinian Hip-Hop Narratives CHAPTER 6 My Maluku Manise: Managing Desire and Despair in the Diaspora CHAPTER 7 Anecdotes of Movement and Belonging: Intertwining Strands of the Professional and the Personal Afterword Index