Contested Belonging
Spaces, Practices, Biographies
Contested Belonging
Spaces, Practices, Biographies
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Contributions address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Focussing on three particular dimensions of belonging: belonging as space (neighbourhood, workplace, home), as practice (virtual, physical, cultural), and as biography (life stories, group narratives).
This book’s international contributors include established and emerging scholars in migration and intercultural studies, sociology, and anthropology. They investigate the feeling of belonging in migrants and refugees living in host countries, and in those who experience alienation while still living in their country of origin. Some subjects explored are African academics on a South African university campus, the sense of belonging among senior mobile home residents in Florida, and biographic narratives of immigrant care workers in Italy. Other subjects include young Eritreans’ narratives about estrangement and belonging, young Finnish Somalis, and Muslims and the media in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Kathy Davis is a senior research fellow in the Sociology Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her most recent book is Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World (2015). Halleh Ghorashi is Full Professor of Diversity and Integration in the Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is co-editor of Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition: Perspectives from Northern Europe (2009) and Muslim diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging (2010). Peer Smets is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His recent co-edited volumes include Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South: Seeking Sustainable Solutions; Earthscan (2014), and Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective (2017).
This book’s international contributors include established and emerging scholars in migration and intercultural studies, sociology, and anthropology. They investigate the feeling of belonging in migrants and refugees living in host countries, and in those who experience alienation while still living in their country of origin. Some subjects explored are African academics on a South African university campus, the sense of belonging among senior mobile home residents in Florida, and biographic narratives of immigrant care workers in Italy. Other subjects include young Eritreans’ narratives about estrangement and belonging, young Finnish Somalis, and Muslims and the media in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Kathy Davis is a senior research fellow in the Sociology Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her most recent book is Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World (2015). Halleh Ghorashi is Full Professor of Diversity and Integration in the Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is co-editor of Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition: Perspectives from Northern Europe (2009) and Muslim diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging (2010). Peer Smets is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His recent co-edited volumes include Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South: Seeking Sustainable Solutions; Earthscan (2014), and Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective (2017).