About
Alejandro Miranda-Nieto is Head of the academic unit Service organization and innovation in social work and child welfare at the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. His research focuses on the relationship between social practice, home and various forms of mobility, migration and social change. He is also interested in the development of innovative research methods, such as mobile ethnographic techniques and perspectives. He is the author of academic articles on home, migration, musical practice and ethnography. His monograph Musical Mobilities has been published in the Routledge Advances in Ethnography series and the co-authored book Ethnographies of Home and Mobility in the Routledge Home series.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda (2023). Shared Flats in Madrid: Accessing and Analysing Migrants’ Sense of Home. Bocagni, Paolo; Bonfanti, Sara (Ed.). Migration and Domestic Space Ethnographies of Home in the Making. p. 85-100. Springer Nature.
Lenhard, Johannes; Coulomb, Laureline;
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
(2022).
Home making without a home: dwelling practices and routines among people experiencing homelessness.
Housing Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2022862
Boccagni, Paolo;
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
(2022).
Home in question: Uncovering meanings, desires and dilemmas of non-home.
European Journal of Cultural Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494211037683
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda ; Massa, Aurora; Bonfanti, Sara (2020). Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs. ISBN: 9781003085300. 196 p. Routledge.
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
; Boccagni, Paolo
(2020).
At Home in the Restaurant: Familiarity, Belonging and Material Culture in Ecuadorian Restaurants in Madrid.
Sociology.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520914829
Bonfanti, Sara; Massa, Aurora;
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
(2019).
Whiffs of home. Ethnographic comparison in a collaborative research study across European cities.
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa.
https://doi.org/10.3240/94694
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
(2017).
Movement, Practice, and a Musical Tradition between Mexico and the United States.
Transfers Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies.
https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2017.070203
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda (2017). Musical Mobilities: Son Jarocho and the Circulation of Tradition Across Mexico and the United States. ISBN: 9781315231150. 162 p. Routledge.
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
(2016).
Journeying with a musical practice : Existential mobility and transnational labour.
Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal (MCSJ).
https://doi.org/10.25364/08.2:2016.1.3
