Obeid, Michelle2026-03-302026-03-302025-12Obeid, M. (2025). Migration as Anchorage: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836951421978-1-83695-142-1https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836951421https://hdl.handle.net/10315/43680This book is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license.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.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Refugee and migration studiesAnthropologyPeace and conflict studiesPalestiniansIsraelUnited KingdomBook