This article investigates homemaking as a set of practices and a perspective on migrants’ ways of local incorporation, with its own material, emotional and relational underpinnings. Homemaking has the potential to emerge as an original category of analysis in immigrant integration, moving beyond the contraposition between assimilationism and transnationalism. Based also on our ongoing research, both in the United States and in Europe, we argue for the significance of migrants’ interactions with specific local structures of opportunities, including people and institutions as much as the built and natural environment. The latter is a critical site where the meanings, opportunities and contents of integration are negotiated between immigrant newcomers and their local and transnational counterparts. Migrants’ stratified rights, opportunities and aspirations to make themselves at home open a promising research perspective on group relations, as embedded in everyday materialities. While integration is a multi-dimensional and multi-scalar effort, it still rests on place-bound fields of inequalities and interaction within and between groups, and on underlying differences in views, emotions and practices of home. These are both a mirror of larger asymmetries of power and of the opportunities available to challenge them.

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整合和将空间变成“我们”的地方的斗争：家庭主妇作为超越同化主义与跨国主义僵局的一种方式

本文将家政作为一组实践进行调查，并从移民融入当地的方式及其自身的物质、情感和关系基础的角度进行研究。持家有可能成为移民融合分析的一个原始类别，超越同化主义和跨国主义之间的对立。同样基于我们在美国和欧洲正在进行的研究，我们主张移民与当地特定机会结构互动的重要性，包括人和机构以及建筑和自然环境。后者是一个重要的场所，新移民与其当地和跨国同行就融合的意义、机会和内容进行协商。移民的分层权利，让自己在家的机会和愿望为群体关系开辟了一个有前途的研究视角，因为嵌入在日常物质中。虽然融合是一项多维度和多尺度的努力，但它仍然依赖于群体内部和群体之间的不平等和互动的地域限制领域，以及家庭观点、情感和实践的潜在差异。这些既反映了更广泛的权力不对称，也反映了挑战它们的机会。