Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London

dc.contributor.authorObeid, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-30T19:53:13Z
dc.date.available2026-03-30T19:53:13Z
dc.date.issued2025-12
dc.descriptionThis book is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license.
dc.description.abstractOn 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.
dc.identifier.citationObeid, M. (2025). Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836951421
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-83695-142-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3167/9781836951421
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/43680
dc.publisherBerghahn Books
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectRefugee and migration studies
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.subjectPeace and conflict studies
dc.subjectPalestinians
dc.subjectIsrael
dc.subjectUnited Kingdom
dc.titleMigration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London
dc.typeBook

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