Our research aim was to identify how migrant home and homemaking had been remembered, imagined and contested in recent contemporary artistic practices in the UK, Denmark and Sweden from 2010 to 2019. Our extensive research into exhibitions, performances and individual art works, artists, curators, and organisations and institutions that engaged with themes of migration, refugees, home, homemaking, unhomliness and belonging/unbelonging enabled a starting point for the recognition of key issues and preoccupations in each country. These included the everyday obstacles of homemaking experienced through language, the bureaucratic processes of trying to make a home in a new country, questions of hospitality and boundary drawing, and the deeply embedded political, social and cultural structures that tie individuals to nation states. 

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Through delving into specific exhibitions and works our enquiry focused on the world-making dimensions of art works and their attendant aesthetic practices that reconfigure the affective materialities and multi-scalar processes of home and homemaking and imagine new futures.The works encompass mixed media installation, painting, performance and interventions in public spaces. 

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​Publications are in process including a chapter on scalar aesthetics by Phillip Dodds in the edited volume, Aesthetic methodological interventions in migrant homemaking amidst divergent integration politics in Denmark, Sweden and the UK, eds. Fran Lloyd, Eleonora Narvselius & Marta Padovan-Özdemir (forthcoming).