Abstract This paper examines how certain perceived attributes of Japanese houses affect and shape the bodies of their inhabitants – namely, Russian women in Japan. In turn, this relationship affects the women’s modes of being in the host country. Drawing on fieldwork data, I explore how the coldness and wetness of houses mediate the effects on the inhabitants’ senses, creating an affective experience of being “absorbed” by the physicality of one’s home. The study reveals how bodily reactions to and affective engagements with their agentic homes in the host country underpin the migrants’ everyday sensory-affective spectrums. Such sensory experiences play a central role in the women’s perceptions and constructions of selfhood. This paper further shows how these sense-driven experiences are enmeshed in broader discursive flows. They are linked to familial, communal, and societal power relations embedded in the reality of being a migrant.

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与房子的皮肤接触：在日本的俄罗斯移民妇女与家庭关系中的感官和情感

摘要 本文研究了日本房屋的某些感知属性如何影响和塑造其居民的身体——即日本的俄罗斯妇女。反过来，这种关系会影响女性在东道国的生活模式。利用实地调查数据，我探索房屋的寒冷和潮湿如何调节对居民感官的影响，创造一种被家的物质“吸收”的情感体验。该研究揭示了对他们在东道国的代理家园的身体反应和情感互动如何巩固移民的日常感官-情感频谱。这种感官体验在女性对自我的认知和构建中起着核心作用。本文进一步展示了这些感官驱动的体验如何融入更广泛的话语流中。