Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Keywords: Conflict-induced displacement; Home; Transnational migration; Narrative research; Material Culture

Working Group(s): Working Group on Feminist Theory, Refugees and Displacement

Bio

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester and is currently a research fellow at the “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” Research Group, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Prior to joining the Max Planck Institute, Luis Eduardo convened and taught master courses on Migration and Development and Critical Issues in Urban Inequality at GDI, where he also supervised master students. Between 2018 and 2021 Luis Eduardo held a post-doc position at the Home-Migration Nexus Project, University of Trento, where he conducted ethnographic research with transnational migrants in Spain and the UK. His research interests include home and homemaking, conflict-induced displacement, migration and mobilities, ageing and narrative research.

Publications

2023 Finding Home in Europe: Chronicles of Global Migrants. Oxford: Berghahn. Edited with Sara Bonfanti. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/PerezMurciaFinding
2022 ‘My soul stills hurts’: Bringing death and funerals into the ageing-migration-home nexus. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2115626
2022 “Of home-comings and home-scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home”. Global Networks. With P. Boccagni. doi.org/10.1111/glob.12371
2022 Do Objects (Re)produce Home among International Migrants? Unveiling the Social Functions of Domestic Possessions in Peruvian and Ecuadorian Migration. Journal of Intercultural Studies. With P. Boccagni. doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2063825
2021 ‘Selling a house, staging a dream: Real estate agencies and transnational housing between Spain and Ecuador’ with Boccagni, P. Migration and Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2020.1842608
2020 ‘Physically sheltered but existentially homeless’: Losing home in the aftermath of conflict and displacement’ Migration Studies, online first. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaa020
‘Fixed places, shifting distances: remittance houses and migrants’ negotiation of home in Ecuador’ with Boccagni, P. Migration Studies, online first. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaa017
2020 ‘Remaking a Place Called Home Following Displacement’ in Edensor., Kalandides, A., and Kothari, U. The Routledge Handbook of Place. London, UK. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429453267
2020 Thinking Home on the Move: A Conversation across Disciplines. Coauthored with P. Boccagni and M. Belloni. Emerald.
2019 ‘The Sweet Memories of Home Have Gone’: Displaced People Searching for Home in a Liminal Space. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1491299
2018 ‘Where the heart is and where it hurts’: Conceptions of home for people fleeing conflict. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdz001
2014 Social Policy or Reparative Justice? Challenges for Reparations in Contexts of Massive Displacement and Related Serious Human Rights Violations. Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 27, No.2. 2014. pp. 191-206. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fet028