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Migration as Anchorage

Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London

Michelle Obeid

198 pages, 3 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-142-1 $120.00/£92.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (September 2025)

eISBN 978-1-83695-141-4 eBook Not Yet Published


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“This is a moving and beautifully written account of the making of home in the face of uncertainty, adversity, and persecution.” • Ramy Aly, The American University in Cairo

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On a temporary visit to London, a Palestinian family found themselves unable to return to Gaza during Israel’s 2008 war on their city. Understanding their stay in London as an act of ‘anchoring’, the family opened a Palestinian café and sought to make their lives – as individuals, as a family and as a community – viable in the face of uncertainty. By following the stories of various family members as they struggled to recreate a sense of home, this moving ethnography introduces the concept of anchorage as a novel lens to understand migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and serendipity of these experiences.

Michelle Obeid is a Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is also the author of Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times (Brill, 2019).

Subject: Refugee and Migration StudiesAnthropology (General)Peace and Conflict Studies
Area: Middle East & IsraelEurope


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