ABSTRACT
The Western-elitist-notion of landscape creates a sense of things being 'in place'. The emphasis is on a visual scape in which the observer stands back from the thing observed. But, even within this limited understanding of landscape, stasis is an illusion. Tensioned landscapes-in-movement occur at every scale, from the global to the most personal. From macro to micro and vice versa the different scales are indissolubly linked. People's sense of place and landscape thus extends out from the locale and from the present encounter and is contingent upon a larger temporal and spatial field of relationships. Most ethnographies on migrant workers focus on male migrant workers, as though women always stayed home. So far, the focus is on the landscapes of those on the move. But that's not the end of it. Those on the move affect the landscapes of those being moved through. And they affect the landscapes of those being left behind.
