ABSTRACT
Drawing on literature highlighting the ‘cultural turn’ in Migration Studies, this chapter will first analyse the debate on the culture-migration nexus through approaches developed in Anthropology and Cultural Geography. It will then explore the relationship between migration processes and materiality. This aspect of migrations, also dubbed the ‘material culture of migration’, analyses things produced, circulated, exchanged, and consumed in the migration context, as well as the production and transformation of migrants’ physical living spaces at different geographical levels. The chapter argues that studies of material culture of migration allow us, on the one hand, to complement or even go beyond identity-based discourses and, on the other, to consider the study of migration as a socio-cultural phenomenon that lets us to broaden our knowledge of the plurality of ways of being in the world with, and even beyond, the issue of migration.
