The hospitality of objects and their travelling memories
This article investigates the tangible and the ephemeral of hospitality by drawing on new materialism, the potential of the personal object, and the possibilities it affords for making oneself at home. Migrants' everyday material life and their biographies provide a lens to discuss the shaping of migrants' histories and cultural identities. In doing this, it invokes migrants' travelling memories and personal versions of history where objects become acts of self-welcome. Such a view challenges the host–guest dichotomy often taken for granted in traditional versions of hospitality, where migrants' material lives are omitted. Aquest article investiga allò tangible i efímer de l'hospitalitat basant-se en el nou materialisme, el potencial de l'objecte personal i les possibilitats que ofereix per sentir-se com a casa. La vida material quotidiana dels migrants i les seves biografies proporcionen una lent per discutir la configuració de les històries i les identitats culturals dels migrants. En fer-ho, invoca els records de viatge dels migrants i les versions personals de la història on els objectes es converteixen en actes d'autoacollida. Aquesta visió desafia la dicotomia amfitrió-hoste que sovint es dóna per feta en les versions tradicionals de l'hospitalitat on s'ometen les vides materials dels migrants.
Authors
- Cristina Ros i Solé
Institutions
- Universidad de Londres (MX)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Language and Intercultural Communication
- Published
- 2025-11-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2026.2613298
- Primary Topic
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00