Migration as Anchorage
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Migration as Anchorage

Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London

  1. 175 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Migration as Anchorage

Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Migration as Anchorage
  2. Table of contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Note on Transliteration of Arabic Terms
  6. Introduction ‘Now, We Are Here’ Anchoring in the Meantime •
  7. Chapter 1. Home and Nation in the Palestinian Kitchen •
  8. Chapter 2. Family Business and the Business of Family
  9. Chapter 3. Encountering British Bureaucracy •
  10. Chapter 4. ‘Discombobulated’ Subjectivities
  11. Chapter 5. On the World Stage Performing Palestine in London •
  12. Conclusion ‘For Now, We Are Still Here’ •
  13. Glossary
  14. References
  15. Index