Dr. Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia is a Writing Fellow in the research group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” led by Dr. Megha Amrith. Luis Eduardo holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester and between 2018 and 2021 held a post-doctoral fellowship at the HOMInG Project, University of Trento. His research interests include home and homemaking, conflict-induced displacement, migration and mobilities, ageing and narrative research. Luis Eduardo is the co-author and co-editor of Finding Home in Europe: Chronicles of Global Migrants’ (with S. Bonfanti, Berghahn, 2023) and co-editor of Thinking home on the move’ (with P. Boccagni and M. Belloni, Emerald, 2020).

His research has been published in academic journals including Migration Studies, Journal of Refugees Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Networks, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and Refugee Survey Quarterly. Prior to joining MPI-MMG Luis Eduardo was lecturing on Migration and Development and Migration, Mobilities and Displacement at the University of Manchester.

Publications

Monographs

Pérez Murcia, L. E., & Bonfanti, S. (Hrsg.). (2023). FINDING HOME IN EUROPE: Chronicles of Global Migrants (1. Aufl.). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800738508

Boccagni, P., Pérez Murcia, L. E., & Belloni, M. (2020). Thinking Home on the Move: A Conversation across Disciplines. Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839097225

Journal Articles

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2023). ‘My soul stills hurts’: Bringing death and funerals into the ageing-migration-home nexus. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(4), 962–978. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2115626

Pérez Murcia, L. E., & Boccagni, P. (2022). Do Objects (Re)produce Home among International Migrants?: Unveiling the Social Functions of Domestic Possessions in Peruvian and Ecuadorian Migration. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43(5), 589–605. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2063825

Pérez Murcia, L. E., & Boccagni, P. (2022). Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home. Global Networks, 22(3), 499–513. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12371

Pérez Murcia, L. E. P., & Boccagni, P. (2022). Selling a house, staging a dream: Real estate agencies and transnational housing between Spain and Ecuador. Migration and Development, 11(3), 894–916. https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2020.1842608

Boccagni, P., & Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2021). Fixed places, shifting distances: Remittance houses and migrants’ negotiation of home in Ecuador. Migration Studies, 9(1), 47–64. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaa017

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2021). ‘Physically sheltered but existentially homeless’: Losing home in the aftermath of conflict and displacement. Migration Studies, 9(3), 1361–1379. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaa020

Vari-Lavoisier, I., Boccagni, P., Belloni, M., Bonfanti, S., Massa, A., Miranda, A., & Pérez-Murcia, L. E. (2019). Collective thinking in the field: Distributed cognition in large-scale qualitative research. Espaces et Sociétés, 178(3), 103–120. Cairn.info. Abgerufen von Cairn.info.

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2019). ‘The sweet memories of home have gone’: Displaced people searching for home in a liminal space. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(9), 1515–1531. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1491299

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2019). Where the Heart Is and Where It Hurts: Conceptions of Home for People Fleeing Conflict. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 38(2), 139–158. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdz001

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2014). Social Policy or Reparative Justice? Challenges for Reparations in Contexts of Massive Displacement and Related Serious Human Rights Violations. Journal of Refugee Studies, 27(2), 191–206. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fet028

Contributions to a Collected Edition

Perez Murcia, L. E. (2023). Chapter 1. ‘Moved by the Hand of God’: Lucho, A Peruvian Religious Minister in Manchester. In L. E. Perez Murcia & S. Bonfanti (Eds.), Finding Home in Europe: Chronicles of Global Migrants (pp. 43–61). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Perez Murcia, L. E. (2023). Chapter 6. Yolanda: A Peruvian Care Worker on the Spanish Frontline. In L. E. Perez Murcia & S. Bonfanti (Eds.), Finding Home in Europe: Chronicles of Global Migrants (pp. 138–156). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Perez Murcia, L. E. (2023). Chapter 9. Paola: Performing Memory and Reproducing Food Cultures. In L. E. Perez Murcia & S. Bonfanti (Eds.), Finding Home in Europe: Chronicles of Global Migrants (pp. 197–213). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Perez Murcia, L. E., & Bonfanti, S. (2023). Introduction. Bringing the Migrants’ Voices to the Home–Mobility Nexus. In L. E. Perez Murcia & S. Bonfanti (Eds.), Finding Home in Europe Chronicles of Global Migrants (pp. 1–36). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Perez Murcia, L. E. (2023). Part III: Tastes of Home. In L. E. Perez Murcia & S. Bonfanti (Eds.), Finding Home in Europe: Chronicles of Global Migrants (pp. 157–162). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2023). Researching home through the narratives of displaced people. In P. Boccagni (Hrsg.), Handbook on Home and Migration (S. 554–566). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882775.00058

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2023). Transnational Circulation of Home Through Objects: A Multisited Ethnography in Peruvian ‘Homes’. In P. Boccagni & S. Bonfanti (Hrsg.), Migration and Domestic Space (S. 193–208). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23125-4_11

Boccagni, P., Pérez Murcia, L. E., & Belloni, M. (2020). Homemaking from the Margins: Towards a New Conversation on Home on the Move. In P. Boccagni, L. E. Pérez Murcia, & M. Belloni, Thinking Home on the Move (S. 5–20). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-722-520200003

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2020). Remaking a place called home following displacement. In T. Edensor, A. Kalandides, & U. Kothari (Hrsg.), The Routledge Handbook of Place (1. Aufl., S. 468–476). Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. |Includes bibliographical references and index.: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429453267-41

Other Publications

Pérez Murcia, L. E. (2016, Mai 16). Losing and Remaking Home: Conflict and displacement in Colombia. Global Development Institute Blog website: http://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/losing-remaking-home-conflict-displacement-colombia/