par Marilla, Angelie ;Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion
Editeur scientifique Boccagni, Paolo
Référence Handbook on home and migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham and Northampton, page (702)
Publication Publié, 2023-06-15
Partie d'ouvrage collectif
Résumé : This chapter analyzes the ways in which migrants maintain, redefine and reinforce their conceptions of home through various homemaking strategies. For this purpose, we revisit three fast-growing scholarships focusing respectively on transnational families in which the members are geographically separated due to migration; on migrant families settled in their receiving countries; and on families of mixed couples in which the partners are socially viewed as different due to their distinct legal statuses, socio-cultural practices and ethnic backgrounds. The first set of studies reveals that the homemaking of transnational families involves a wide range of material and non-material practices across national borders, which sustains the notion of home within expanded social spaces uniting different kin members "here" and "there". The second body of works unveils migrant families' pluri-local homemaking strategies that encompass their domestic space, neighborhoods, urban spaces and the city in their settlement countries. In the third literature, the homemaking of mixed couples also has a transnational character. However, it is mainly oriented towards their countries of residence, particularly during the (re)productive period of couples' lives when they build their own families and establish their careers. All across these family configurations home is mobile over borders, space and time.

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