Making it Home:
An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution
to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration
- MaHoMe
MaHoMe
Making it Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution
to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration
- MaHoMe
Concepts of home and home-making are central, materially and metaphorically to the politics and policies of migration and integration. Yet, dominant integration discourses largely view home as a singular space, located in one place and time, implicitly framing migrants' fluid and multifaceted experience and creation of home as incomprehensible, deviant, and potentially disturbing.
The MaHoMe project directly addresses migration and integration challenges by examining how migrants make and make sense of home amidst the complex and divergent politics of integration in three host societies: UK, Denmark and Sweden.
Our Research Questions
How do notions of home and home-making configure in policy narratives of migration management and migrant integration in the Denmark, Sweden and the UK between 2010-2019?
How has migrant home and home-making been remembered, imagined and contested in contemporary artistic practices in the UK, Denmark and Sweden, 2010-2019?
How can aesthetic processes, artistic expressions and art-based ethnographies facilitate new understandings of migrant experiences of home and home-making?
Migrant-Home Nexus
Working with the multi-scalarity of home our research focuses on migrant and refugee homemaking in each of the three welfare states of Denmark, Sweden and the UK and offers cross-country comparative perspectives.
Our multi-disciplinary approaches engage multi-sited and art-based ethnographic methods across the three intertwined areas of policy-making, art works, and migrant home-making in the everyday.
Working with NGOs and migrants as co-researchers, our collaborative and participatory practices, together with our innovative aesthetic methodologies enable new understandings of migrant home-making that bridge the arts and social sciences.
The Project is led by Kingston University, in partnership with Lund University in Sweden and Roskilde University in Denmark.
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