Material Culture and (Forced) Migration, Materializing the transient

Table of Contents:

List of figures

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction: From ʻbare lifeʼ to ʻmoving thingsʼ: On the materiality of (forced) migration

Andrea Lauser, Antonie Fuhse, Peter Bräunlein and Friedemann Yi-Neumann

Part I – Transient foundations: on temporality and materiality

Introduction
Antonie Fuhse

1. Materializing transformative futures

Georgina Ramsay

2. Camps as vessels of hope

Simon Turner

Part II – Materialising methods: applying things in (forced) migration research

Introduction
Friedemann Yi-Neumann

3. Why should(n’t) refugees be asked about their possessions? A research-ethical and methodological reflection on my fieldwork in a refugee shelter

Elena Höpfner

4. From biographies to biographical horizons: on life courses and things in forced migrations

Friedemann Yi-Neumann
5. The Dzhangal Archaeology Project and 'Lande': two archaeological approaches to the study of forced migration

Sarah Mallet and Louise Fowler

6. Undocumented migration and the multiplicity of object lives

Ayşe Şanlı

Part III – Moving things: objects, emotions and relatedness in (forced) migration

Peter Bräunlein

7. Rakı table conversations of post-Gezi migration from Turkey: emotion, intimacy and politics

Özlem Savaş

8. Cooking ‘pocket money’: how young unaccompanied refugees create a sense of community and familiarity at a Danish asylum centre

Andrea Verdasco

9. Circulating things, circulating knowledge: why popular culture matters in exhibitions on migration

Maike Suhr

10. Lockdown routines: im/mobility, materiality and mediated support at the time of the pandemic

Maruška Svašek

11. The pram, the notebook and the plastic bag: mothering practices among migrants living in legal precarity in Berlin

Magdalena Suerbaum

Part IV – Taking and making place: engaging things
Introduction

Andrea Lauser

12. Materiality, agency and temporariness in refugee camps in Greece

Nada Ghandour-Demiri and Petros Passas

13. A retouched relationship: North American retirees’ quest for connection through popular art in Mexico

Rachel Barber

14. Place-making in the transient: things that matter in everyday life of Honduran refugees at the La 72 shelter

Yaatsil Guevara González
Index