Making it Home: Re-Configuring Migrant Homemaking Together

This open event focused on how we can intervene to challenge dominant narratives and perceptions of migration and integration by presenting and discussing new ways of re-thinking and re-configuring migrant and refugee homemaking amidst divergent integration politics in Denmark, Sweden and the UK.

24 May 2024

Centring on migrant and refugee homemaking in the intertwined areas of policy-making, art, and the making of home in the every-day, the event presented a series of innovative aesthetic methodologies resulting from the MaHoMe project, “Making it Home”.

• Social Science Fiction: Narrative re-constructions of policies addressing the migrant-home nexus by Marta Padovan-Özdemir & Annabelle Wilkins

• Art as World-Making: Engaging with Home and Belonging through a Migratory Lens by Fran Lloyd, Kristina Grünenberg & Phil Dodds

• Visual Ethnographies of Migrant Homemaking by Eleonora Narvselius & Nada Al-Hudaid

• Magic ethnography of migrant home-making? by Eleonora Narvselius & Nada Al-Hudaid

• Google Earth walk’n talks about home from one migrant to another by Kristina Grünenberg & Marta Padovan-Özdemir

• Curatorial Interventions: live research methodologies for exploring migration and homemaking in a migrant studio-house museum
 by Helena Bonett and Fran Lloyd

This was followed a panel discussion with Invited Guests: Chris High (Linnaeus University, Sweden), TamlynMonson (Coventry University) and Lina Hakim (Kingston University).