Material Culture Ethnography of Home-Making in Asylum Reception

Friedemann Yi-Neumann is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a visiting researcher at UC Irvine, USA. His work explores social and environmental inequalities in the San Francisco Bay Area, focusing on the material and environmental legacies humans leave behind. Previously, he conducted ethnographic research on migration and materiality as a research fellow at the University of Göttingen, Germany and at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. His research interests span material culture, migration, home, dispossession and social and environmental justice.

• 1 BEGINNING THE JOURNEY.- 2 MEETING OTHER TRAVELLERS.- 3 LOOSENING THE THREADS ALONG THE WAY 1.- 4 LOOSENING THE THREADS ALONG THE WAY 2.- 5 LOOSENING THE THREADS ALONG THE WAY 3.- 6 LOOSENING THE THREADS ALONG THE WAY 4.- 7 ARRIVING SOMEWHERE.