ABSTRACT
Ethnographers always have trouble leaving the field. In the case of this ethnographic research study on children’s meaning-making in the home, it was particularly hard. I had visited three families in their homes in an inner city area of London for over three years and shared their experiences. In some cases, children had experienced exclusion; in others, schools had been labeled as failing. All three families presented me with a complex mesh of identity and practice, bringing to the research data set migratory narratives of loss and displacement.
