Through a series of over 50 interviews collected in the course of the ‘Making it Home’ project in Denmark, Sweden and the UK, Eleonora and Nada developed and tested an innovative visual methodology for exploring the intersection of magic and migration by focusing on how migrants use connective practices of home-making in the everyday. Here, "magic" refers to everyday rituals, imagery, and sensory practices that transform spaces into places and objects into meaningful things, shedding light on the experience of belonging amidst displacement. Such acts foster integration that is grounded in sensory and emotional experiences rather than simply economic or linguistic assimilation.

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A selection of twenty colour photographs produced during these home interviews were displayed as part of the ‘Making it Home’ exhibition at Kingston University in May 2024. In June 2025, Eleonora and Nada will convene a panel on ‘Magic and migration: reimagining homemaking in new environments’ at the 17th Congress of SEIF (The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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A chapter, “Magic ethnography of migrant home-making?”, written by Eleonora Narvselius and Nada Al-Hudani will be published 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.