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.
Field of study
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
;
Gubrium, Erika
(2025).
Somatic agency and the sensory construction of familiarity among Ecuadorian migrants in the Netherlands.
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2562656
Corrales-Øverlid, Ann Cathrin;
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
(2025).
Migrantes latinoamericanos en Noruega: trayectorias laborales, precariedad existencial y sentimiento de hogar.
Triana, Roxana Sobrino; Vik, Alissa (Ed.).
p. 145-166.
Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter).
https://doi.org/https://uplopen.com/chapters/e/10.
Tkach, Olga; Jensen, Tina Gudrun;
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
(2024).
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses.
Space and Culture.
https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312241249047
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.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3115526
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
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
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
Nieto, Alejandro Miranda
; Massa, Aurora; Bonfanti, Sara
(2020).
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs.
ISBN: 9781003085300.
196 p.
Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4542164
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
