Event overview
'Migration, home and belonging' with Narmala Halstead, University of Sussex
This paper considers a long-term engagement in specific research sites and moments of reflections as both happenstance and deliberate focus to bring out 'unlooked for' data and insights. In these particular forms of ethnographic realisations, everyday settings and practices come to be unveiled as ‘familiar-strange’. Reflecting on the anthropological conversion of the ordinary, the paper considers accounts on landscapes that are fluidly expressed through different kinds and periods of migration. It looks at how understandings of home and belonging are enacted and become materialised in the activities of people apparently ‘left behind’ and those who ‘go and come’ or return. ‘Wedding houses’ as major sociality-migration events flow into other related rituals of leaving and maintaining ties to home. The accounts consider how an eventual consideration of these settings as part of the everyday extends both the research and the ethnographic holistic approach
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20 Mar 2019 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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