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Peace and Conflict Studies
Refugee and Migration Studies
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- ISBN 9781836951421
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Michelle Obeid is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is also the author of Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times (Brill, 2019).
