Travelling towards Home

Nicola Frost has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has conducted fieldwork in Indonesia, Australia and the UK, working on community organization, multiculturalism, and the cultural politics of food and festivals. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at City University London and SOAS and now works for the Devon Community Foundation, where she leads on impact, insight and learning, doing research, data analysis and evaluation.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Home and Homemaking in a Time of CrisisTom Selwyn and Nicola FrostChapter 1. Homing Desires: Queer Young Asian Men in LondonChand Starin Basi and Kaveri QureshiChapter 2. Homeawayness and Life-Project Building: Homemaking Among Rural-Urban Migrants in ChinaShuhua ChenChapter 3. Between a Home and a Homeland: Experiences of Jewish Return Migrants in UkraineMarina SapritskyChapter 4. Who Makes ‘Old England’ Home? Tourism and Migration in the English CountrysideYuko ShiojiChapter 5. Modalities of Space, Time, and Voice in Palestinian Hip-Hop NarrativesIlana Webster-KoganChapter 6. My Maluku Manise: Managing Desire and Despair in the DiasporaNicola FrostChapter 7. Anecdotes of Movement and Belonging: Intertwining Strands of the Professional and the PersonalColin MurrayAfterwordTom SelwynIndex

“An important contribution to migration research, especially for understanding home and homemaking in the context of lived realities.” • Nataša Rogelja, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts“One of the joys of this collection is the [range of] wonderful and innovative approaches taken by the contributors… The research methods and conceptual approaches vary considerably from chapter to chapter, making each chapter a voyage of discovery in its own right.” • David Clark, independent scholar