ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the question of the role of the house for immigrants in their settlement process. It argues that the specific act of home-building is the act of turning a current house into a home. The home is multidimensional and consists of a large range of meanings. It is found that migrant houses were sites of the everyday through the resistance to the dominant culture. The chapter explains that the different groups of migrants in this study used the built form of their houses differently due to the political and cultural contexts that surrounded their migration. The different groups varied in their time of migration, country of origin, and destination, their gender, social class, and religion. In the discussion of the migrant home, materiality plays a major part in the creation of the home. The integration of immigrants has always been and still is a vital objective in the national agenda of both Australia and Israel.
