International Symposium on Participatory Research in Migration, Community, and Aesthetics June 11th, 2024
@ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
This event explores how aesthetic methodologies can intertwine with participatory research to address pressing issues in migration, community development, and aesthetics. Esteemed researchers, academics, and practitioners will share their insights and innovative approaches throughout the day. Full details HERE.



Downloads Available from the MaHoMe Project Aesthetic Workshops, June 2024 

We are pleased to announce the availability of two key outputs from the MaHoMe project Aesthetic Workshops:

1. Methodological Toolbox: Click on the title to download your copy.
2. DO##HOME_SPREADS: Click on the title to download your copy.

Making it Home: Reconfiguring Migrant Homemaking Together 
Wednesday 22 May 2024

This is an open event that focuses on how we can intervene to challenge dominant narratives and perceptions of migration and integration by presenting and discussing new ways of re-thinking and re-configuring migrant and refugee home-making amidst divergent integration politics in Denmark, Sweden and the UK. full details HERE.



MaHoMe Exhibition in Sweden MAKING HOME curated by Azadeh Fatehrad: April 2024 

BAC and the Gotland Art Museum proudly present artist and researcher Azadeh Fatehrad's exhibition Making Home, produced as part of the research project MaHoMe (2020-2024), supported by Nordforsk. Making Home highlights the role of mobile phones as links that connect individuals to their places of origin. It also highlights the relationship between modern technology and deeply personal memories and perceptions of home.  More details HERE



MaHoMe Exhibition in UK On the Move: Mobile Phones and the Tapestry of Home curated by Azadeh Fatehrad, March 2024

‘On the Move: Mobile Phones and the Tapestry of Home’ emphasises the role of mobile phones as symbolic links connecting individuals to their origins. A combination of docu-fiction film, photography, written and spoken word draws viewers into the intricate world of migration, memory, and the quest for belonging; underscoring the nuanced relationship between modern technology and deeply personal memories and perceptions of home. more details HERE

MaHoMe Interactive Website: February 2023 

MaHoMe’s Work Package lead Dr Azadeh Fatehrad, in collaboration with her team, have launched the interactive website. 

Our crowd sourcing platform is created to share your ideas related to home. Where is home for you?
It would be wonderful to have your submission if you have five minutes to spare. It could be a found image, a memory, an image of an exhibition, your cooking, walking to work, a link to music, or a moment on your cosy sofa.  It could be anything. We're interested in discovering whatever home means to you.

Please share (LINK)

Toolkit Two: Aesthetic Workshops Cross Countries
Making It Home - Migrants’ Memories and Imaginations of Home

19-23rd September 2022, BAC

NGOs and workshop facilitators gathered together for the final reflections on the aesthetic workshops’ series across the three countries of UK, Sweden and Denmark. Hosted by the Baltic Art Center (BAC) Sweden the three–day event on the 19th - 23rd of September was led by Dr Azadeh Fatehrad, MaHoMe’s Work Package Lead, and took place in Visby, Gotland. 

Toolkit One- Aesthetic Workshops Cross Countries 

Making It Home - Migrants’ Memories and Imaginations of Home

November 2021, BAC

Dr Azadeh Fatehrad MaHoMe’s work package leader for Aesthetic Workshops across UK, Sweden and Denmark has delivered the Toolkit One with our workshop facilitators and NGOs across the 3 countries.  

Recent Publications:

Wilkins, A (2023) Gendering home and migration in Handbook of Home and Migration (Edward Elgar), edited by Paolo Boccagni. LINK

Wilkins, A (2023) Maybe in the future I’ll have two homes chapter in the Handbook of Migration and the Family (Edward Elgar), edited by Johanna L. Waters and Brenda S. A.
Yeoh‘: temporalities of migration and family life among Vietnamese people in London. LINK


Narvselius, E., Padovan-Özdemir, M. (2022). Utilitarian and Exclusive Humanism: Conditioned Welcoming through State-Sanctioned Migrant Home-Making. The NordForsk report, requested by the Nordic Council of Ministers: Ukrainian refugees and the Nordics: Research-led best practice on how to cater for Ukrainian refugees arriving in the Nordic Region (April 2022). LINK

Migration book by Arts Cabinet
Fatehrad, Azadeh (2021) Sculpture of Uncertainty in Migration, Arts Cabinet, Page 36-46. London: In the Shade of a Tree, LINK






Padovan-Özdemir, M. “Kunst og pædagogik i et postmigrationssamfund” [Art and Pedagogy in a Postmigration Society]. Dansk pædagogisk Tidsskrift, nr. 2 (2020): 38–59, LINK

Recent Paper presentations:

Narvselius,E, Lloyd, F and Dodds,P (2023).  SIEF2023 ‘Living Uncertainty’, 16th Congress of International Society for Ethnology and Folk, Brno, Czech Republic, 7-10 June 2023.

Dodds, P (2023). “The reconstruction of various objects in the home that were destroyed in the attack”16th Congress of International Society for Ethnology and Folk, Brno, Czech Republic, 7-10 June 2023.


Wilkins,A and Boccagni,P (2023) ‘Home and migration: a conversation across geographies of place-making on the move’. RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2023, 29 August-1 September 2023


Narvselius, E. (2022). We Just Moved in, and This Is It”: Housing and Home Space as a Site of (Dis)remembrance of the Vanished East-Central European Populations. Paper, Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand. LINK

Narvselius, E. (2022) Folkhemmet Sedimented? An ethnographic content analysis of Swedish government documents (2010-2020). RE:22 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Reykjavik University, 12-16 June 2022. LINK

Padovan-Özdemir, M. and Dodds, P. (2022)  ‘Postmigratory autoethnography: a complicit aesthetic exploration of migrant home-making’ at the 21st Nordic Migration Research Conference: RE:MIGRATION - New perspectives on movement, research, and society (Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 17- 19 August 2022).

Padovan-Özdemir, M., Narvselius, E., & Wilkins, A. (2021). Managing Migrant Lives through Home – a narrative documentary ethnography of immigration and integration policy in Denmark, Sweden and the UK. Paper, IMISCOE Annual Conference, Luxemborg.

Padovan-Özdemir, M., Mansour, N., Amin, A., & Alexander Muchenberger, A. (2021). Welfare Aesthetics in the ‘Ghetto’: a scientific-aesthetic montage of sound, visuals and critical perspectives on the homed regulation of racialized migrant bodies. Paper, Aesthetic Relations, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Padovan-Özdemir, M., Lloyd, F., & Narvselius, E. (2021). Let’s Make it Home: What Critical Storytelling and Visual Arts-based Methodologies Offer. Panel, 20th Nordic Migration Research Conference, Helsinki, Finland.

Padovan-Özdemir, M. (2021). Storying Home in Policy Addressing Migrants. Paper, 20th Nordic Migration Research Conference, Helsinki, Finland.



Recent Interviews:

“Interview with Marta Padovan-Özdemir” (24/06/21), by Rosangela Vertullo, Pouiline Teruin, Edvard Nyvoll Bjørklund & Margerita Illieva, Action Aid Denmark, LINK


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Events

MaHoMe Research Forum: ‘Experimental aesthetic methodologies for reimagining migrant homemaking’
Date: December 13th 2022, 9am-5pm
Venue: Hornbergssalen, Kulturen in Lund, Sweden

At this open seminar, the MaHoMe research project showcases its preliminary aesthetic methodological contributions to the study of migrant homemaking and politics of integration. Engaging with a multi-layered “aesthetic effectivity” (Padovan-Özdemir 2016: 126-7) our contributions explore the epistemological, ethical, and imaginary force of aesthetic interventions in social science data by refashioning the familiar to make us re-think what is at stake and direct our attention to the complicit research gaze that implicates us in the process.
We invite participants to discuss and explore the (im)potency of aesthetic interventions in social science as tools for critique, engagement, and reimagining.



Summer Institute: Witnessing War in Ukraine: Oral History and Interview-Based Research, July 16-19, 2022

Eleanora Narvselius together with colleagues from University of Alberta (Canada) and Jagiellonian University (Poland), co-organized an Oral History and Interview-Based Research Summer Institute in Poland.

Find out more about this event here!


Politician’s Week in Almedalen, 4-8 July 2022

The NordForsk article below was selected for presentation at Politicians’ Week at Almedalen in July. This is the biggest political forum in Sweden, held in Visby, and the invitation is a fantastic accolade and recognition of the impact of MaHoMe research. Among the panel attendees were Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Minister for Migration and Asylum Policies Anders Ygeman and Mikael Ribbenvik, Director of Migration Board.

Dr Eleonora Narvselius was also invited to participate in a panel debate as part of Politicians Week. You can find the recording of this event titled ‘Refugee Wave from Ukraine –What Have We Learned from the Refugee Reception in 2015?’ on youtube here.


Nordic Migration Research Conference in Copenhagen, August 17-19 2022:  Postmigratory autoethnography – a complicit aesthetic exploration of migrant home-making by Marta Padovan-Özdemir, Roskilde University and Philip Dodds, Lund University

Panel conveners: Maja Povrzanović Frykman, GPS & MIM, Malmö University, Moritz Schramm, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark.

The postmigration perspective calls for a thorough recalibration of how we study migration and the effects of migration, by which we turn our researcher gaze from the migrant Other to the socio-political and socio-symbolic negotiations unfolding in a society already complicit in the dynamics of migration (Petersen & Schramm 2016). This paper takes the postmigration argument of complicity a step further and acknowledges the migration researcher as an implicated subject in the phenomenon under study (Narvselius 2021). Instead of compensating for the researcher complicity, this paper proposes to utilize researcher complicity as way of fostering a collaborative and participatory postmigratory methodology (Myong 2018; cf. Padovan-Özdemir 2020). Accordingly, the paper conceptualizes the methodological notion of postmigratory autoethnography as a layered account (Ellis, Adams & Bochner 2011:278-9) and displays the authors’ four attempts of doing and writing postmigratory autoethnographies based on two aesthetic workshop series with artist facilitators and migrant participants in Denmark and Sweden, respectively. Ultimately, the paper discusses the implications and experiences of involving oneself as a migrant researcher in an aesthetic exploration of migrant home-making in two welfare state contexts of divergent and heated integration politics – and converses the research contribution of complicity.




11 –13 January 2021

20TH NORDIC MIGRATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE & 17TH ETMU CONFERENCE

On COLONIAL/RACIAL HISTORIES, NATIONAL NARRATIVES AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION

University of Helsinki, Finland


MaHoMe researchers are convening two workshops entitled ‘Let’s Make it Home: What Critical Storytelling and Visual Arts-based Methodologies Offer’.

Full Details HERE 

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November 2020

ROUND TABLE CONVERSATION ON WELFARE, URPBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INTEGRATION EFFORTS

THE GOOD LIFE? # IMMIGRANT HOMES? # WHERE’S THE HOPE?

Hosted by VIA University College, Andromeda & ActionAid Denmark

November 29 2020, 1-2.30 pm, Café Mellemfolk, Århus, Denmark
This roundtable conversation is initiated by the research project, Making it Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration. The project directly addresses migration and integration challenges by examining how migrants make and make sense of home amidst the complex and divergent politics of integration in three host societies: UK, Denmark and Sweden. 

Max 30 participants. First-come, first-served sign-up HERE



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October 2020

Film presentation 4th October 2020: Migration og byudvikling i velfærdsbyen [Migration and Urban Development in the Welfare City], talk given by Marta Padovan-Özdemir, CAFx Aarhus Architecture Festival.


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Padovan-Özdemir, Marta. “Kunst og pædagogik i et postmigrationssamfund”. Dansk pædagogisk Tidsskrift, no. 2 (2020): 38–59, LINK 

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Collective auto-ethnography – montaging migrant homemaking amidst divergent politics of migration and integration presentation by Marta Padovan-Özdemir (RUC) on May 11, 2023 @InterKult research group, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University.



Exploratory Ethnographic Workshops: Home, Home-making and Belonging in a Migration Context, March - April 2023.Fran Lloyd (KU) and Helena Bonett hosted at theDorich House Museum, London.




Ukrainians in Poland: Making Home in Times of Peace and War collaboration, 6-8 March 2023. Eleonora Narvselius and Igor Pietraszewski are in the process of conducting 10 focus groups and up to 20 follow-up individual interviews among the Ukrainian refugees residing in the city. The study is a direct off-spin of MaHoMe.
The suggested inquiry utilizes the conceptual framework and interview questionnaire developed for MaHoMe.


Diffractive Ethnography of Migrant Homemaking, November 2022 - February 2023. Kristina Grünenberg and Marta Padovan-Özdemir (RUC) have developed and trialed a methodological protocol of diffractive ethnography together with eight self-identified migrants living in Denmark.



MaHoMe Research Forum: Experimental aesthetic methodologies for reimagining migrant homemaking, at Hornbergssalen, Kulturen in Lund, 13 December 2022.

The MaHoMe research project showcased its preliminary aesthetic methodological contributions to the study of migrant homemaking and politics of integration at this open seminar where we were joined by the two invited respondents: Erin Cory, Malmö University, and Karen Waltorp, Copenhagen University.

No Place Like Home – panel discussion, June 6, 2023. Annabelle Wilkins was invited to participate in a panel discussion alongside artists, curators and activists at the Museum of the Home, London. The panel discussion took place as part of the exhibition No Place Like Home, a free contemporary art exhibition co- curated and led by KV Duong and Hoa Dung Clerget.

Calling it Home – StatelessMind Network Meeting, Marta Padovan-Özdemir (RUC) October 26, 2023.