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Family labor migration from South Asia to Europe is often framed as proceeding in a predictable pattern of "male first-time migrant, ethnic marriage and spouse reunion." Migration to Northern Italy is no exception. Primary data from recent ethnographic fieldwork reveal a slow rise in mixed South Asian–Italian couples, which might bring into question the quandaries they face in raising children. This article considers the daily struggles in conjugal and parental relations in mixed-culture households formed by spouses, one of whom is from a South Asian background, and the other is an Italian "native." Applying intersectional analysis to the life stories and aspirations of such cross-cultural new generations allows for revisiting the commonplace view of South Asia–Europe intimate links.

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The dowry system originated in South Asia and the new patterns of household formation among Indian migrant minorities have been debated in the international literature, particularly in the UK. However, less attention has been paid to the pre-marital bargaining strategies used in the most recent Punjabi immigration to Italy (to date the largest Indian Diaspora in Europe) and to how a certain idea of kinship and a cultural code of spousal/parental relations are enacted through gift, exchange and favor. This article explores the "marriage market" among youth of Punjabi descent in Italy (between first and second immigrant generations), investigating the bride-groom selection procedures and the economic transactions which endorse a wedding agreement. Reports of ethnographic research just concluded in the northern rural districts of Bergamo and Brescia indicate that dissonant subjective narratives give voice to family and community conflicts across genders and ages in setting up new domestic groups, capturing the shifting local milieu after the economic crisis. Using an intersectional perspective, which highlights diversity in the Italian Punjabi community (with regard to class, caste and faith), we ascertain how categories of social difference are reproduced, contested and transformed throughout wedlock, and see how a traditional tempered endogamy has long become transnational and partly disrupted. Analyzing how young Indian Italians selectively resort to discourses about love/convenience, right/duty, control/autonomy, we will consider whether and how personal agencies may navigate hierarchical structures such as patriarchy, social inequality and capitalist development.

Set in Brescia, an Italian city with a sizeable Indo-Pakistani minority, this article considers the media panic that honor killings raised and echoed nationwide since 2006. Based on extensive ethnographic work, the article draws from participant observation and personal narratives shared with Panjabi locals to investigate such 'cultural crimes', pondering which status of victim is (self-)ascribed to 'Brown immigrant' women. While the remnants of a Mediterranean culture of 'honor-and-shame' is almost forgotten today in the country, the repressive control that South Asian women seem to endure within their domestic environments saw the simultaneous condemnation from different social actors. As racialized Islamophobia escalates, the protection of migrant/ethnic women from honour-related violence (HRV) becomes more complex: who is entitled to 'defend' them? When and where can these women raise their own voices? The intersectional resistance that Panjabi women in Italy oppose against the objectification inflicted on them by family, community and public discourses (liberal feminist, multicultural or chauvinist) can barely be heard. Concurring with critical literature on HRV, this article argues to critically interrogate the idea of culture as a motivation for violence against minority women but also recognizes the pervasiveness of such narrative in the strenuous efforts waged by the same subjects in voicing their distress.

1. Introduction: Stranger, Guest, Researcher – A Case for Domestic Ethnography in Migration Studies (Paolo Boccagni and Sara Bonfanti) -- 2. A House of Homes: On the Multiscalarity and Ambivalence of Homemaking in a Multicultural Condominium in Italy (Adriano Cancellieri) -- 3. The Next-Door Migrant: Autoethnography of Everyday Home Encounters across Difference (Francesco Vietti) -- 4. Welcome upon Conditions: On Visiting a Multigenerational Immigrant House(hold) (Sara Bonfanti) -- 5. Shared Flats in Madrid: Accessing and Analysing Migrants' Sense of Home (Alejandro Miranda-Nieto) -- 6. 'Visiting Home' as a Method and Experience: Researching Russian Migrants' Homes in the UK (Anna Pechurina) -- 7. Rooms with Little View: Reluctant Homemaking and the Negotiation of Space in an Asylum Centre (Paolo Boccagni) -- 8. (In)Visibility: On the Doorstep of a Mediatized Refugees' Squat (Daniela Giudic) -- 9. Looking for Homes in Migrants' Informal Settlements: A Case Study from Italy (Enrico Fravega) -- 10. Attending Houses of Worship as Homes Out of the Home (Sara Bonfanti and Barbara Bertolani) -- 11. Transnational Circulation of Home Through Objects: A Multisited Ethnography in Peruvian 'Homes' (Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia) -- 12. Migrant Domestic Space as Kinship Space: Dwelling in the "Distant Home" of One's in-Laws (Barbara Bertolani) -- 13. Whose Homes? Approaching the Lived Experience of "Remittance Houses" from Within (Paolo Boccagni and Gabriel Echeverria).

This open access book provides insight into the domestic space of people with an immigrant or refugee background. It selects and compares a whole spectrum of dwelling conditions with ethnographic material covering a variety of national backgrounds – Latin America, North and West Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia – and an equally broad range of housing, household and legal arrangements. It provides a fine-grained understanding of migrants' lived experience of their domestic space and shows the critical significance of the lived space of a house as a microcosm of societal constellations of identities, values and inequalities. The book enhances the connection between migration studies and research into housing, social reproduction, domesticity and material culture and provides an interesting read to scholars in migration studies, policy makers and practitioners with a remit in local housing and integration policies. "This wonderful edited collection extends our understanding of migration not only into the confines of the domestic space but also into the territory of the ethnographer. What does it mean to be a guest in a migrant home? This collection of chapters traverses this question in diverse settings and circumstances of homemaking […]. Boccagni and Bonfanti have skilfully created an intricate lace of ethnographic accounts that provides a nuanced understanding of the built environments where migrants live, how they relate to their homes and how this is articulated in their attitudes toward majority society. The chapters, each on its own and together as a collection, advance our understanding of the researcher being a guest in the migrant home, just like the migrant being a guest in the host country. This complexity of ethnography and positionality makes this edited book an essential reading for migration scholars and ethnographers alike!" Iris Levin, Lecturer in Urban Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia "This book demonstrates how ethnographies of home and dwelling can bear on the study of migration and its manifestation in domestic space. Entering someone's home as a researcher challenges our ethical registers: the researcher moves between being a stranger and a guest. The authors point to the dilemmas researchers encounter in intimate settings and how they might be resolved. A valuable and timely book for researchers on dwelling, home and movement." Cathrine Brun, Professor of Human Geography, Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford, UK "This excellent collection delves into the relationship between migration, domesticity, and material culture. It is ethnographically rich and impressively varied in its geographical scope, with insights that will prove extremely useful to scholars and practitioners alike. The great strength of the volume lies in the fascinating diversity, granular detail and methodological care of the contributions, with authors deploying concepts and arguments that prepare a great deal of fertile ground for future work." Tom Scott-Smith, Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, University of Oxford "This insightful collection departs from the simple yet significant question of roles: What happens when the researcher/participant relationship, becomes guest/host instead? By seeing and interpreting domestic spaces as ethnographic field sites, the contributions shed light on refugees' and other migrants' lived experiences of home and housing. Drawing on empirical evidence from diverse types of homes, across geographic locations, Migration and domestic space: Ethnographies of home in the making offers valuable and fresh perspective, encouraging new connections between material and emotional, public and private, in migration research." Marta Bivand Erdal, Research Professor in Migration studies, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

"Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 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. Subaltern migrants and refugees speak out, conceptually engaging with the political strength of their voices as this volume seeks to combat the notion that these people are 'out of place' or cannot claim their right to belong"--

This book lays out a framework for understanding connections between home and mobility, and situates this within a multidisciplinary field of social research. The authors show how the idea of home offers a privileged entry point into topics such as forced migration, diversity and inequality. Using original fieldwork, the authors consider a comparative approach to such topics as labour, family and refugee flows, with case studies from Latin America, Africa and the Indian subcontinent. With the book structured around these key topics, the authors look at both how ideas of home have been formed, and the emotions and processes that go alongside this. In so doing, the scope widens from the household to streets, neighbourhoods, cities and even nations. Yet the meaning of 'home' goes beyond place; the authors analyse literature on migration and mobility to reveal how the past and future are equally projected into imaginings of home

INTERACT - Researching Third Country Nationals' Integration as a Three-way Process - Immigrants, Countries of Emigration and Countries of Immigration as Actors of Integration ; The fulltext pdfs are available upon request to migration@EUI.eu during the embargo period (until 6 October 2019) ; In this study we examine the integration of immigrants born in selected non-EU countries (China, Ecuador, India, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine) living in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The units of analysis are the so-called migrant corridors, i.e. a migrant community x in a destination country y. A multidimensional perspective is adopted by focusing on their integration in the following three domains: labour market, education and access to citizenship. Our aim is to compare the level of integration of migrant corridors by dimension. Drawing on relevant micro-datasets, a set of basic integration indicators were identified for each dimension. Using the Principal Component Analysis technique, these basic indicators were synthesized into composite indicators, thus allowing for ranking migrant corridors both in terms of their absolute performances and compared with native outcomes. ; INTERACT is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union

Comment étudier aujourd'hui la mobilité, en pratique ? Les nombreux plaidoyers en faveur des ethnographies multi-situées ont favorisé la multiplication des enquêtes qualitatives internationales ; mais la transnationalisation de méthodes ethnographiques, développées à l'échelle locale, suscite de nouveaux défis. Dans cet article, les membres du projet erc homi n g partagent les difficultés rencontrées, et solutions développées, pour mener une enquête qualitative, à travers dix pays. Les auteurs reviennent plus précisément sur les stratégies mises en œuvre, dans le cadre de leurs recherches ethnographiques transfrontalières, pour (1) revisiter le pacte ethnographique entre enquêteurs et enquêtés ; (2) mutualiser les données entre sites, et entre chercheurs ; (3) alterner phases de terrain individuelles et analyses collectives afin de favoriser des processus de cognition distribuée. Ce faisant, cet article pose des jalons pour stimuler la production de connaissances qualitatives nouvelles sur les mobilités contemporaines.