ABSTRACT
In everyday discourse home and field assume and reinforce each other. Home is the life from which we venture forth and ply our trade, the interpretation of that which is not home-the field-a domain of work which in practice we distinguish from the rest of life by means of various devices. Home and field invoke the duality of belonging and alienation, familiarity and investigation, which implicitly function as fieldwork strategies. What home and field actually are, and how researchers organize the relationship between them, are issues worthy of further investigation. The positioning of home and field is particularly complicated in cases of multilocale lives and work, though as Marcus (1995) points out, fieldwork as it is traditionally practised is already multi-sited. What happens when the field is also home? While researchers have been quick to document the transnationalism of others (Basch et al., 1994; Chamberlain, 1994; Garcia, 1994) they have been slow to reflect upon the impact of their own transnationalism on their research. What happens when here and there contain both home and field? What are the threads connecting life and work when researchers are themselves transnationals?
