Transcending home: citizenship and belonging in the migrant experience

Marianela Barrios Aquino

doi:10.20919/9780995786226

Transcending home: citizenship and belonging in the migrant experience

Marianela Barrios Aquino

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the concept of home (and its construction as a social as well as a subjective process) in relation to the migrant experience and the construction of multi-layered belongings. In this paper I argue that in the context of transnational migration, the concept of home focuses on its emotional perspective rather than its territorial connection, because it is constituted as a process of change and of searching related to the construction of multiple and extraterritorial ways of belonging(Brun & Fábos 2015; Korac 2009). Furthermore, I aim at challenging the notions of home as static and territorially bounded arguing that for migrants home is something highly portable, flexible, multiple, ambiguous and emotionally constructed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Beyond the Boundaries of Home: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Editors	Marianela Barrios Aquino, Eduard Campillo-Funollet, Naomi Daw, Ketan Jha, Myles Logan Miller, Alexa Neale, Tom Ottway
Place of Publication	Brighton
Publisher	University of Sussex Library
Chapter	5
Pages	49-62
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9780995786226
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.20919/9780995786226
Publication status	Published - 2 Jun 2017

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Transcending home: citizenship and belonging in the migrant experience. / Barrios Aquino, Marianela.
Beyond the Boundaries of Home: Interdisciplinary Approaches. ed. / Marianela Barrios Aquino; Eduard Campillo-Funollet; Naomi Daw; Ketan Jha; Myles Logan Miller; Alexa Neale; Tom Ottway. Brighton: University of Sussex Library, 2017. p. 49-62.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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