“Home” is a noun while “homing” is a verb. Sociology professor Paolo Boccagni of the University of Trento heads an interdisciplinary team investigating the home experience and its determinants as affected, constrained, and redefined by international migration.

“Home is to be understood both as a bounded place — hence a matter of living and housing conditions, affected by structural variables and inequalities; and as a meaningful and emotionalized kind of relationship with place — an experience that should be based on a sense of security, familiarity, and control,” Dr. Boccagni says.

He will discuss his multi-year European Research Council project in a free public lecture entitled “Homing as an Everyday Optic on Migrant Trajectories of Local Integration: Beyond Assimilation vs. Transnationalism,” Monday, March 26, in room 162, Chrysler Hall South.

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, the event will begin with a light lunch at 12:30 p.m. followed by the talk at 1 p.m. Find details on the department’s website.