Long Journey Home - Losing and Remaking Home Following Conflict and Displacement

Advancing contemporary scholarly debates on the role of home in understanding displacement and emplacement, A Long Journey Home explores powerful personal narratives from Colombia. The book examines the experiences of those whose sense of home has been disrupted by decades of conflict and violence. It highlights the profound feelings of loss and the enduring struggle of living without a home - an experience that can last for years or even decades. Through these stories, the book reveals how internally displaced people use creativity and imagination to remake their home while on the move.

About the author

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia is the co-author of Finding Home in Europe (Berghahn Books, 2023) and co-editor of Thinking Home on the Move (Emerald, 2020). He is currently a writing fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity's research group 'Ageing in a Time of Mobility' and a research fellow at the Global Development Institute's group 'Migration, Refugees and Asylum'.

Product details

• Authors: Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia, Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.09.2025
• EAN: 9781836951360
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-136-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Forced Migration
• Subjects: Guides; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Refugee and Migration Studies, Anthropology (General)