ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 discusses intersectional and multidisciplinary research on home, contrasting this broad literature with how home is used in social work literature. It interrogates notions of home in social work and expands on previous literature about the embodied home visit and home as a dwelling or residence (see also Zufferey et al., 2020). Multidisciplinary and intersectional perspectives on home as imagined and experienced in movement presents home as being multiple and complex (Ahmed et al., 2003). This book builds on previous research and published literature by social work authors who advocate for interrogating home in social work (Zufferey et al., 2020). Previous social work research has positioned home as being beyond the ‘residential fixity’ of imagined homes, such as in child welfare (Forsberg & Pösö, 2011). Social workers are involved in building civil society and a sense of place in migration and refugee resettlement work (Määttä, 2018) and they also co-construct a sense of home in collaboration with their clients (Ranta & Juhila, 2020). Taking an intersectional approach to home in social work, this book explores how multidisciplinary literature has used intersectionality in their accounts of home. It argues for broadening definitions and responses to home in social work through a multidisciplinary and intersectional lens.
