Migration as Anchorage

Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

On a temporary visit to London, a Palestinian family found themselves unable to return to Gaza during Israel’s 2008 war on their city. Understanding their stay in London as an act of ‘anchoring’, the family opened a Palestinian café and sought to make their lives – as individuals, as a family and as a community – viable in the face of uncertainty. By following the stories of various family members as they struggled to recreate a sense of home, this moving ethnography introduces the concept of anchorage as a novel lens to understand migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and serendipity of these experiences.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:412 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781836951421

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Migration inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Michelle Obeid is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is also the author of Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times (Brill, 2019).

Recensioner i media

“This is a moving and beautifully written account of the making of home in the face of uncertainty, adversity, and persecution.” • Ramy Aly, The American University in Cairo

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration of Arabic TermsIntroduction: ‘Now, we are Here:’ Anchoring in the MeantimeChapter 1. Home and Nation in the Palestinian KitchenChapter 2. Family Business and the Business of FamilyChapter 3. Encountering British BureaucracyChapter 4. ‘Discombobulated’ SubjectivitiesChapter 5. On the World Stage: Performing Palestine in LondonConclusion: ‘For Now, we are Still Here’GlossaryReferencesIndex