Audran Aulanier, Juliette Duclos-Valois, Alice Latouche, Laura Odasso (ed.), Intimacy in migration. An approach based on relationships with oneself, with others and with things, SociologyS, 2025.

With the participation of Constance De Gourcy.

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Summary:

The publication of this dossier follows on from the Intimigrwhich began in 2020 and gave rise to a photographic and sound exhibition in 2023 (https://www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/intimites-en-migration-de-lenquete-lexposition) at the Maison de l'Architecture Île-de-France.

The aim of the dossier is to think of intimacy as a report to oneself, to others and to objects; as an engagement with the world that gives way to a relational dynamic. So the dossier is not just about withdrawing into private spaces or relationships with loved ones, but also, for example, about negotiations with social workers over what privacy means, or about exiles' attachments to their neighbourhoods or towns, with contributions from the sociology of living and urban sociology. 

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Link to the online issue

(available in English and French)

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Contents

Audran Aulanier and Laura Odasso

"Intimacy in migration [Full text]

Maxime Felder and Joan Stavo-Debauge

Intimations of intimacy in situations of hospitality. The difficulty of living in someone else's home for migrants [Full text]

Yohann Caradec

Defining intimacy in a precarious "home" for social workers and an Indian immigrant family in France. (Being) imposed, negotiated, made to do [Full text]

Clothilde Arnaud and Marie Trossat

Living and crossing: rethinking the spatiality of intimacy through precarious migration [Full text]

Naoual Mahroug

Walking for asylum. Thinking about intimacy at the intersection of the steps taken to apply for asylum [Full text]

Constance De Gourcy

Stories of absence: family intimacy through the prism of separation [Full text]