The significance of things

Objects, emotions and cultural production in migrant women's return visits home

Bibliographic Data

ID3366504
AuthorsAnastasia Christou (0000-0002-8796-1191, Middlesex University, corresponding author), Hania Janta (0000-0001-6545-5266, University of Surrey)
Year2019
Volume67
Issue3
Pages654-671
Publication date2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038026118816906
OpenAlexW2899875802
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited33

This article draws on qualitative research in Basel, Switzerland with highly skilled migrant women from various European nationalities employed in a number of professional sectors. It seeks to contribute to the literatures on the sociologies of migration and the sociologies of everyday life by intersecting the conceptual frame of 'affective habitus' with the phenomenology of material culture in unpacking how emotions triggered by objects shape settling practices in host societies. The analysis centres on pathways of cultural production as they unfold through memories, objects and experiential return visits. The authors find sociological depth in applying 'affective habitus' as the conceptual framing to examine how mediations of memory and emotions can extend understandings of how women migrants create agentic ways to settle in new host societies while making cultural accommodations. The conceptual terrain of 'affective habitus' is theorised through a phenomenological approach to gendered migrancy and cultural materiality in everyday life

Aesthetics · Conceptual framework · Cultural capital · Dialectic · Epistemology · Everyday life · Experiential learning · Framing (construction) · Habitus · Materiality (auditing) · Pedagogy · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Social science · Sociology · Unpacking · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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