ABSTRACT
For many people, displacement induced by conflict and human rights abuses has meant having to leave a place they call home. However, when individuals settle in a new place they do not always feel at home. Drawing on the experiences of internally displaced people in Colombia, this chapter shows how home is not necessarily and only a physical place of shelter but incorporates embodied, affective and emotional attachments. As such, while the term displacement refers to a separation from a place that is familiar, known and often described as homely, settling in a new place does not necessarily denote being ‘replaced’ nor a sense of being at home. Thus, while the physical movement of displacement may come to an end, an existential condition of being displaced remains until people are able to remake a material, symbolic and affective place called home.
