Migration as Anchorage

A Palestinian family, stranded in London during Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza, opens a café and adapts to uncertainty. This ethnography follows their efforts to recreate home, introducing the concept of ‘anchoring’ to explore migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and serendipity of these experiences.

Michelle Obeid is a Senior Lecturer of 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).

Michelle Obeid is a Senior Lecturer of 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).

“This is a moving and beautifully written account of the making of home in the face of uncertainty, adversity, and persecution.” • Ramy Aly, The American University in Cairo