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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2022

“French-Syrian homes; photographic image of migrant-citizenship

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Syrians’ mass displacement and settlement in transit countries has been widely documented with many images of refugee camps’ life, questioning what makes a home in a refugee camp, with scant personal possessions and found objects: a “degree zero” home, which is missing the basics we take for granted while still providing the physical and cultural image of a home. Migrants’ homes in Europe are less visible and less represented, although an essential base, even if transient, for those granted refugee status, like Syrian artist and activist Diala Brisly who is now living in Valence (France). Lauren Dehomme has been photographing the artist at home in 2019 and this paper will be analysing one of her pictures to understand how the choice of a home is revealing the migrant’s (with granted status) progressive change from, according to Brisly, “no country and no room”, to a diasporic space, both intimate and uncertain. This home will be explored as a mental topoï, highlighting blurred geographical and temporal lines: a multilevel space and a negotiation ground where the migrant tries rebuilding a dismantled personal history into a global citizenship. The idea is to question the photographic image of the migrant’s home as a representation of citizen-making between integration and statelessness. The aim is to show a home built on narratives with many intertwined stories that expose the continuity of a life with its losses, adaptation and projects. The home will be seen as a mobile, multicultural escape route towards international citizenship. And the idea of citizenship for non-citizen won’t be seen as a strategy, but as a form of knowledge as well as a political voice, expressing the perspectives of the ones who have no place to claim and to belong to.
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hal-03643622 , version 1 (16-04-2022)

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Geneviève Guétemme. “French-Syrian homes; photographic image of migrant-citizenship. Making Home Away: Understanding Home through Migration, Displacement and Resettlement, inPress. ⟨hal-03643622⟩
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