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Coles, Kimberley. 2007. Democratic Designs: International intervention and electoral practices in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN: 978-0-472-06985-9. 320 pgs. 31 figures, 6 tables. $26.95.Goodale, Mark and Sally Engle Merry (2007) The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-68378-4, xii + 384 pp, $39.99Lazarus-Black, Mindie. 2007. Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation.
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN: 978-0-252-07408-0. 264 pp. $22.00.Pouligny, Beatrice. 2006. Peace Operations Seen from Below: UN Missions and Local People. USA: Kumarian Press. ISBN: 978 156549 224 0 276 295 pp. $27.50.Good, Anthony. 2007. Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts. New York: Cavendish. ISBN 978-1-904385-55-4 xxv + 299 pp.

Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the social practice of home-making amongst people whose lives are characterized by movement and violence. Social scientific and policy understandings of home and migration tend to focus on territory, culture and nation, often carrying implicit 'sedentarist' assumptions of a naturalised link between people and particular places. This book challenges such views, drawing attention instead to unpredictable forms of dwelling in the often violent processes that connect yet differently affect the movement of people and capital. Taking seriously the political implications of this challenge, the authors do not resort to a free floating, placeless approach. Instead, through the detailed ethnography of lived experiences of displacement and emplacement, *Struggles for Home* investigates the power sedentarism may have to provide or prohibit hope. Research conducted in Sri Lanka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zambia, Cyprus, the Palestinian West Bank, Guatemala, and amongst Romanians and Moroccans in Spain articulates a novel theoretical framework for the development of a critical political anthropology of one of the most controversial and fascinating issues of our time - the remaking of home in migration