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A Long Journey Home: Losing and Remaking Home following Conflict and Displacement

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A Long Journey Home

Losing and Remaking Home following Conflict and Displacement

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

228 pages, 18 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-136-0 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (September 2025)


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“This is an exceptionally well-conceived and written study about different, yet interrelated, experiences of losing and living without home … it is a beautifully written book.” • Maja Korac, University of Belgrade

“This is a rich and deeply moving exploration of the experience of Colombians who were internally displaced during different phases of violence in the country.” • Michelle Obeid, University of Manchester

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Advancing contemporary scholarly debates on the role of home in understanding displacement and emplacement, A Long Journey Home explores powerful personal narratives from Colombia. The book examines the experiences of those whose sense of home has been disrupted by decades of conflict and violence. It highlights the profound feelings of loss and the enduring struggle of living without a home – an experience that can last for years or even decades. Through these stories, the book reveals how internally displaced people use creativity and imagination to remake their home while on the move.

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia is the co-author of Finding Home in Europe (Berghahn Books, 2023) and co-editor of Thinking Home on the Move (Emerald, 2020). He is currently a writing fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity’s research group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ and a research fellow at the Global Development Institute’s group ‘Migration, Refugees and Asylum’.

Subject: Refugee and Migration StudiesAnthropology (General)
Area: Latin America and the Caribbean

A Long Journey Home by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

OA ISBN: 978-1-83695-134-6



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