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Making and consuming food are evident aspects in migrants' construction and reproduction of memory, identity and belonging. Food consumption can also enable migrants to make themselves at home abroad by reproducing aspects of their past and relating them to particular places in the present. This article draws from ethnographic work in Ecuadorian restaurants in Madrid to investigate the 'domestication' of space through their material culture. It examines the representation and use of these restaurants to unveil multiple ways of displaying belonging and reproducing degrees of domesticity. Enacting private routines, embodying familiarity through food and decorating backbars are instances that reveal how the material arrangements in migrant-run restaurants facilitate the construction of a sense of home. From a sociological perspective, this article reveals how the boundaries between private and public, as well as migrants' ethnicity and belonging, are constantly reshaped through material arrangements that operate as forms of domestication of space.

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

Many scholars have turned to neighboring, or neighbor interactions and practices, as an open-ended process rather than a finished ideal. In doing so, they have disrupted the romanticization of the neighborhood as a community-driven and stable space. Through this lens, the proximity of dwelling is seen just as a possibility for social contact rather than a crucial characteristic of neighbor relations. Amid the rapid transformations in contemporary urban environments, neighbor relations as spatial practices are shaped and mediated by multiple forces. Based on five research cases from Brazil, Denmark, Finland, and Russia, this Special Issue, "Materialities and Senses of Neighboring," explores how neighbor relations are shaped by material and sensory practices in the context of urban housing and localities. This editorial introduction to this Special Issue of Space and Culture highlights the main points of how the foregrounding of material and sensory aspects contributes to the studies of neighbor relations. It then shows how the cross-cutting themes of shared materiality, housing geometry, sensoriality, and imaginaries interplay in the contributors' articles to develop the overarching idea of the collection.

This working paper is a systematic review of 101 articles dealing with early-career researchers (ECRs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the social study of science and higher education in this region has developed for several decades, the social contexts in which ECRs' trajectories take place have been scarcely explored. In analysing the ways in which the literature has studied this issue, we found that the most dominant themes are growth and transformation in research and higher education, academic productivity and efficiency, issues in the labour market and job insecurity, international mobility and, to a lesser extent, gender and diversity. Strikingly, by examining these themes regarding the intersection between micro-, meso- and macro-dimensions of social activity and individual agency, we demonstrate that this literature is silent about the actual experience of ECRs. Thus, this literature overlooks the interactions between individuals' capacity to act as social agents and the structural affordances and constraints that shape their career trajectories. The paper signals the most significant gaps in this body of literature, including empirical, methodological and conceptual issues, which we argue have influenced the present state of the evidence. This results in a clear agenda for future research.