ABSTRACT
‘Migrancy’ appears to be the other of ‘home’, when confronted with conventional ways of understanding dwelling in Western thought. While migrancy signifies movement, change and being separated from an original place of belonging, Western conceptions of dwelling are based on notions of stability, permanency, belonging to and being rooted in a place. The opposition between migrancy and home has become more evident in a recent academic pessimism maintaining that it is impossible to conceive any notion of home in our times characterized by massive displacements of people around the globe and the resultant complexity of transnational/diasporic social relations. In such a condition, migrancy is seen to have become a metaphor for a supposedly universal feeling of alienation and homelessness.
