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SUMMARY:At Home in a Diaspora City: Urban Domesticities and Domestic Urban
 ism - Professor Alison Blunt\, Queen Mary\, University of London
DTSTART:20140123T163000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This paper is about the city as home for people living in dias
 pora. It is part of a broader attempt to think about the relationships bet
 ween homes and cities in terms of both urban domesticities (home-making in
  the city) and domestic urbanism (the city itself as home). It develops tw
 o key areas of debate. First\, in contrast to research that explores diasp
 oric homes in relation to domestic home-making and/or the nation as home o
 r ‘homeland\,’ it foregrounds the diaspora city as home. Second\, buil
 ding on research on transnational urbanism\, translocality and the importa
 nce of the ‘city scale’ in migration studies\, it argues that the city
  is a distinctive location of diasporic dwelling\, belonging and attachmen
 t. The paper considers what it means to be at home in a diaspora city by d
 rawing on two research projects: first\, the urban attachments of Anglo-In
 dian and Chinese Calcuttans who live in London and Toronto\; and\, second\
 , the relationships between home and the city for diaspora communities in 
 East London.  
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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