The hospitality of objects and their travelling memories
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article investigates the tangible and the ephemeral of hospitality by drawing on new materialism, the potential of the personal object, and the possibilities it affords for making oneself at home. Migrants' everyday material life and their biographies provide a lens to discuss the shaping of migrants' histories and cultural identities. In doing this, it invokes migrants' travelling memories and personal versions of history where objects become acts of self-welcome. Such a view challenges the host–guest dichotomy often taken for granted in traditional versions of hospitality, where migrants' material lives are omitted.
Author: Cristina Ros i Solé
Institution: University of London
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Exile Studies
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7124917686