Migration as Anchorage

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Migration as Anchorage is written by Michelle Obeid and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1836951418 (ISBN 10) and 9781836951414 (ISBN 13).

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.